Monday, July 13, 2020

Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)

Class overview
Name:Gerald R. Ford–class aircraft carrier
Builders:Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by:Nimitz class
Cost:Program cost: US$37.30 billion (FY2018)[1]
Unit cost: US$12.998 billion (FY2018)[1]
In service:2017–present
Building:2
Ordered:2[1]
Planned:10[2][3]
Completed:2
Active:1
General characteristics
Type:Aircraft carrier
Displacement:About 100,000 long tons (100,000 tonnes) (full load)[4]
Length:1,106 ft (337 m)
Beam:256 ft (78 m) (flight deck)
134 ft (41 m) (waterline)
Height:250 feet (76 m)[citation needed]
Draft:39 ft (12 m)[5]
Decks:25
Installed power:Two A1B nuclear reactors
Propulsion:Four shafts
Speed:In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range:Unlimited
Endurance:50-year service life
Complement:508 officers
3,789 enlisted[5]
Crew:About 2,600[6]
Sensors andAN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) X band active electronically scanned array
processing systems:AN/SPY-4 Volume Search Radar (VSR) S band active electronically scanned array (CVN-78)
AN/SPY-6 Volume Search Radar (VSR) S band active electronically scanned array (CVN-79 and up)
Armament:Surface-to-air missiles:
2 × RIM-162 ESSM launchers
2 × RIM-116 RAM
Guns:
3 × Phalanx CIWS
4 × M2 .50 Cal. (12.7 mm) machine guns
Aircraft carried:75+[7]
Aviation facilities:1,092 ft × 256 ft (333 m × 78 m) flight deck


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