The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)
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Biggest, baddest and most expensive Naval ship in the world...
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1. This is the Super carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).
It is the biggest Naval ship ever built.
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2. At 1,106 feet long with 25 decks tall, when it enters the water
approximately 100 thousand tons of water gets displaced.
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3.The CVN-78 is the first Super carrier know as the “Ford class”
which will replace the older “Nimitz class” carriers.
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4. To put this in perspective, when the U.S. Navy sends an
aircraft carrier to watch-over a country…..that country and
the rest of the world knows that America isn’t messing around.
Simply put, the presence of a carrier means air dominance.
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5. Let’s meet the biggest, baddest and most expensive
Naval ship in the world.
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6. Construction began on August 11th of 2005 in Virginia
at the Newport News shipbuilding grounds.
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7. CVN-78 weighs as much as 400 Statues of Liberty
(just under 100,000 tons).
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8. 5 thousand American shipbuilders worked on the
USS G. R. Ford.
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9. In a time of war, the ship can carry 508 officers and
3,789 enlisted crew members for a total of 4,297 humans
living on the CVN-78.
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10. Depending on the size of the aircraft, it will
hold at least 75 planes/helicopters (or more).
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11. Two separate nuclear reactors power the four propellers
to a top speed of 35mph.
Each one of the 4 propellers weigh
30-tons (60 thousand pounds).
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12. The ship produces 15,000 meals a day to feed the floating city.
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13. Her massive flight deck spans over 5-acres.
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14. The flight deck is 256 feet wide.
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15. And spans the length of 1,092 feet for a total
of 217,796 square feet.
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16. Within the carrier are 10 million feet of electrical cables.
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17. And an additional 4 million feet of fiber optic cables.
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18. CVN-78 is coated with “Haze Gray” paint.