“Let’s be deliberate. Let’s not have our eyes become bigger than our stomach and get too far ahead of ourselves.” The institutional hangover which persists upon the Gerald R. Ford-class is embodied in ...

The Type 076 is moving rapidly towards becoming the first ship with an EMALS catapult to operate combat drones, with the ...

JOINT BASE McGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, Lakehurst, N.J. The Navy demonstrated early integration of the future of naval aviation Nov. 18 when it launched F-35C test aircraft CF-3 with its new electromagnetic ...

Summary: The U.S. Navy’s USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) Ford-Class aircraft carrier has conducted successful “dead-load” tests using the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS), launching ...

The Constellation equipment failures were preceded by several others. At the end of 2022 the first of the new American Ford class CVN/Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier finally left for its long delayed ...

March 29, 2024: In the United States, new aircraft carrier USS Kennedy, CVN (nuclear-powered aircraft carrier) 79, the second of the new Ford-class carriers, is 18 months late, in part because the ...

Meet the Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier: Perhaps no single piece of military equipment speaks to a nation’s prosperity and prestige like the nuclear aircraft carrier. The vast majority of the world’s ...

HII's Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) unit has started testing of the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) on aircraft carrier John F Kennedy (CVN 79), marking a major milestone for the ship ...

The USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) has been afloat since 2019 and is one of the most high-tech combat-ready aircraft carriers in the United States Navy’s fleet. It’s also about to get even more high ...

HII announced today that its Newport News Shipbuilding division (NNS) recently began topside testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) on aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79).