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Ford-class carrier

Newport News Shipbuilding is the only shipyard in the country building nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. In the foreground is the Ford-class carrier USS John F. Kennedy, which is about two years from delivery. Photo by Ashley Cowan/Huntington Ingalls Industriesa
Apr 28, 2022

Harder, better, faster, stronger

On March 20, 1922, the U.S. Navy commissioned its first aircraft carrier: the USS Langley. A century later, the Navy is hosting centennial events around the country, including in Norfolk, where the USS Langley was converted into the Navy’s first carrier from the USS Jupiter, the Navy’s first electrically propelled ship. The Jupiter was decommissioned […]

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