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USS United States: The Aircraft Carrier Designed to Launch Bombers
Key Points and Summary – The USS United States (CVA-58) was conceived as an 82,000-ton, island-less supercarrier to launch ...
National Security Journal on MSN
The Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier Almost Became an Unfixable Problem
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), a $13.3 billion supercarrier, is labeled a “defense acquisition horror show” due to ...
President Donald Trump said he would introduce an executive order to bring back steam power to the Navy. He made the comments ...
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford, billed by the US Navy as “the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in ...
China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy ...
The electromagnetic catapults and weapons elevators for Ford class carriers have historically been a headache, but changing ...
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Trump Doesn’t Like the Navy’s Electromagnetic Catapults. Can He Get Rid of Them?
Trump has made his distaste for the US Navy’s new EMALS carrier launching system clear. Yet the catapults have clear benefits over their steam-powered predecessors, despite reliability issues.
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier heads to the Caribbean as President Donald Trump intensifies naval operations against ...
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