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Ford is not just any technological marvel—she’s the most advanced and most powerful ship in the world.
The shipwreck of the USS Yorktown was located around 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu in May 1988 through a joint operation ...
As the Nimitz-class carriers retire, fielding their Ford-class replacements in a timely manner is imperative. Delays to ...
The U.S. is losing the hypersonic arms race to China—but a formidable, new weapon could change the game. When the U.S. Navy’s ...
The USS Yorktown was commissioned in 1937 and took part in several World War II missions in the Pacific before it went down ...
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan embarked USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the flagship of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12, to observe the strike group’s Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), Apr.
China has “the world’s leading hypersonic missile arsenal” that can threaten U.S. Navy ships, according to the Defense ...
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Carrier Strike Group’s Composite ... Ahead of Comptuex, the aircraft trained at NAS Fallon, Nevada, tailored to the happenings in the Middle East—particularly ...
The US Navy's next aircraft carrier is almost finished but faces challenges with its elevators, among other technology. The advanced weapons elevators were previously an issue on the first-in-class ...
FORD — Two F-18 fighter jets roared above the USS Gerald R. Ford, flying past the aircraft carrier in the direction of a destroyer sitting on the horizon. Four other destroyers were also spread ...
The Admiral Kuznetsov of Russia is the only operational aircraft carrier, known for its steam turbine propulsion and the ...
The Nimitz and its escorts — the guided-missile destroyers USS Gridley and USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee — pulled into Apra ...