Aircraft carrier "Gerald R. Ford" is ready to be launched

The American shipyard Newport News Shipbuilding has prepared the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier for launch. Commissioning fleet It is planned for 2015, when, as expected, Gerald Ford will replace the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which as of 2012 has served in the fleet for more than 50 years. These plans did not materialize, the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was withdrawn from the fleet on December 1, 2012.

The planned lifespan of Gerald Ford is the same 50 years, the cost of building three aircraft carriers of the new type will be approximately $ 42 billion.

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[svp67]

That's how I would like that there would not be enough money for his completion ... You look at the ocean and the sky would be cleaner.

[ShturmKGB]

Chinese characters in the photo cause a smile)

[strannik595]

we envy silently ....... respect to American shipbuilders .... taxpayer money intended for the Department of Defense goes to the address, and not like some, to landscaping Astrakhan dachas and buying antiques .... still I wonder how does such a disproportionate colossus remain stable on the ocean wave and does not roll over with a keel to the sky?

[Fornit]

Quote: strannik595

how such a disproportionate colossus

You probably wanted to write "asymmetrical" ... The proportions are there - that's it!

[Nitup]

Quote: strannik595

Still, I wonder how such a disproportionate colossus remains stable on the ocean wave and does not turn over with a keel to the sky?

Due to the low center of gravity, it does not roll over, like all ships

[skif33]

I wonder what the name of a similar Chinese project will be, the name of the aircraft carrier itself will definitely be "Mao".

[rugor]

It is clear who follows the topic more than us.

[Kibalchish]

The Chinese are already quietly drawing drawings

[Geisenberg]

Quote: svp67

That's how I would like that there would not be enough money for his completion ... You look at the ocean and the sky would be cleaner.

A truly titanic item. So much iron pounded in there ... it will be a pity when it goes to the bottom

[Ingvar 72]

Have a good dive, submarine! Oh, you are not a submarine? Well anyway, successfully plunge!

[bomg.77]

As the saying goes, "One small iceberg is one big ship!"

[Max otto]

Quote: bomg.77

As the saying goes, "One small iceberg is one big ship!"

No, not that, it should be like this: "Big ship - big torpedo!"

[skif33]

The first hawk chick will fall out of the nest soon. And the whole world does not have a lot of countermeasures against it.

[Jogan-xnumx]

... the cost of building three new-class aircraft carriers will be approximately $ 42 billion.

And at whose expense is the banquet?

[Vladimirets]

Quote: Jogan-64

And at whose expense is the banquet?

Look into your wallet.

[Jogan-xnumx]

Look into your wallet.

This is regrettable ... About a well-known character: "As long as fools live in the world, we should be able to live by deception!" And neither history nor old folk wisdom teach us anything. Well, it’s time to start giving up theirs "candy wrappers" FRS.

[Hleb]

approximately $ 42 billion

for some reason, associations with the Olympics in Sochi immediately arose. This is already a diagnosis))

[Serg 122]

For ours with you, for whose!

[iwind]

Whatever it was, but to build 100 thousand aircraft carrier in 3 years (November 13, 2009), especially the first in the series. There is something to learn.

[dojjdik]

on Libyan and Iraqi oil, you can of course throw billions to the right and left, but somehow these floating airfields are outdated already; the states on the "stingers" in Afghanistan made a good impression - they wanted to spin on "stealth" but the Yugoslavs made their invisibility visible; well, now the aircraft carrier is running low

[smiths xnumx]

Well, here's another aircraft carrier at the "Stronghold of Democracy", purely for peaceful purposes

[77bor1973]

-How baked pies. But I agree that the concept of the ship needs to be changed!

[Nitup]

Quote: 77bor1973

-How baked pies. But I agree that the concept of the ship needs to be changed!

What concept do you propose, colleague?

[kostyan77708]

big ship, big torpedo)))

[Serg 122]

"Mace" - will it do ?! (not defective)

[pawel57]

A lot of controversy over the use of aircraft carriers. Openly declared themselves 2 World. Of course, keeping the world in check is this. Ours had the opinion that having a large flotilla of small sea boats or frigates armed with modern missiles, they are able to break into the defense of an aircraft carrier formation with one missile strike. Damage depriving an aircraft carrier of warfare or destroy it. Of course it is close to its shores. A lot more. War will show. Maybe let them indulge. From the battleships? Refused, and who expected? Of course, against the weak enemy, he is power. And who of the likely opponents of the United States will be able to sink the aircraft carrier now? Probably China and we are tight.

[Vitaly Anisimov]

Here they sank a colossus and in such a short period .. Of course, it is enviable ..

[starhina01]

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY

[Snipe 74]

I'm afraid that there will be no TIME left for the holiday. Whatever this holiday was, a lot of people tried hard. And now they are very actively working in the field of the destruction of our country's defense capabilities. Everything that happened was destroyed, and only the blind people don’t see that we live only because we have been allowed to ... So far what they need from WEST from us, they get even more than that. With these funds and build.

[alone]

Holidays are still on the street Serdyukov and the like.

[gunnerminer]

Liked the order on the slipway deck.

[moremansf]

Do not forget that "our partners" put shoes on the whole world, so they had enough "candy wrappers" and there were no "Kuzka mothers", perestroika leaders and EBNs in the US leadership ... so they build ships for everyone to envy and for 50 years, and unas in the 90s, ten-year-old ships went under the knife, if only the IMF gave us another loan for cutting ... So it remains only to envy and believe, as always, in the best ...

[Altona]

To be honest, this event personally did not cause any emotions for me, and partly even caused positive ones, oddly enough it sounds ... The positive thing is that shipbuilders-engineers and simple hard workers still work in America, the second positive point. that this colossus will eat a lot of money from their budget, and they just have sequestration, the third positive thing is that it’s neither hot nor cold for those living in the center of Russia, he cannot threaten us with anything special ... Well, it’s crazy and it’s pointless to send damnations from the fact that the USA has lowered yet another tin from the slipway, it’s only nerves to burn, they change their fleet very quickly ... We ourselves need to somehow pull ourselves up in this regard, otherwise we are losing Turkey to the Black Sea ...