The EMALS is an electromagnetic catapult that relies upon a linear induction motor, rather than a traditional steam piston, to launch aircraft. The Ford-class aircraft carriers are the most expensive ...

The U.S. military reports increased mental health distress among service members. The Navy is expanding its chaplain corps to ...

The Kennedy namesake will live on in the future Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. PCU Kennedy, the second-in-class ship, is scheduled to be commissioned in 2025, three years behind ...

used on the Ford-class aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy and, in future, the PANG (Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Generation/Next Generation Aircraft Carrier) of the French Navy. However, the company ...

The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, CVN-81, CVN-82, and CVN-83 are the first six ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs).

Bush (CVN-83), the 42nd and 43rd Presidents of the U.S., are the latest in the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, President Joe Biden and U.S. Navy recently announced. According to the Navy Times ...

The ex-USS John F. Kennedy, a decommissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, will travel down the Delaware Bay Thursday on its way to Texas for dismantling. The ship left the Navy Yard in Philadelphia ...

A long-serving aircraft carrier ... Kennedy. The Gerald R. Ford-class carrier, which will be designated CVN-79, is set to be delivered to the Navy and commissioned later this year.

After a weather-related delay, the aircraft carrier left the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in South Philadelphia on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, around 10 a.m. to start its trip to ...

Ford-class aircraft carriers as USS William J ... The vessel also features a new, smaller, lower radar cross section island structure, larger and more efficient flight deck facilitating faster ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The decommissioned aircraft carrier, formerly named after President John F. Kennedy, has begun its journey as it heads south from the Philadelphia Navy Yard to the scrapyard.