Source: Navy Times
The next phase in development has begun in the construction of the nation’s newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford,
The vessel returned to the Newport News, Virginia, shipyard recently for planned upgrades and repairs, including addressing problems involving the gear that’s used to catch fighter jets as they land and a ship propulsion problem that was created by a manufacturing defect.
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