The US Navy latest aircraft carrier called USS Gerald R. Ford recently headed out to sea off the coast of Virginia, on the first of a number of sea trials it will undertake to test many of its state of the art technological systems. Built at a staggering cost of $13 billion, the gigantic ship is the most expensive ship that has ever been built and is the first among a new class of aircraft carriers being put into service by the US Navy and is said to have a five acre flight deck and built to hold up to 4,660 personnel and 75 aircraft.
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| USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier |
The humongous warship is 1,106-foot long and is able to launch 220 airstrikes per day from two of its runways and is almost invisible to radar detectors. The ship was designed by using 3D computer modelling and can launch numerous airstrikes, about one every six minutes because the deck utilizes electromagnetic force to propel the jets forward.
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