Three years after its announcement, the US government has today commissioned the construction of Gerald R Ford at the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia.
Ο Πρόεδρος Donald Trump helped hand over the USS Gerald R. Ford to Naval Station Norfolk on Saturday and said the state-of-the-art aircraft carrier will send a message "100.000 tons in the world" about America's military power finally growing.
The latest aircraft carrier to join the US fleet will cost 12,9 billions of dollars, and delays due to overheads in the cost of defense spending will take at least four more years before it can actually become part of the US fleet.
There are plenty of challenges waiting for the new aircraft carrier, as tests and lots of construction still in the middle have to be completed.
In fact it will have to be resolved a major PDF problem (and not only) which includes launching and recovery aircraft, which is the sole reason for the existence of aircraft carriers.
Gerald R Ford is one ship new generation of aircraft carriers. The first class was the Nimitz class built in 1975. Construction began in 2005 and the ship was commissioned as it is today in 2013.
The new Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier will be the most expensive warship ever built by the United States.