The US’ $13.3 billion aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford is finally ready for action!

Today’s post comes from Interesting Engineering Magazine. “After 14 years of development and delays, the most expensive and often troubled next-generation aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is finally ready for deployment. The aircraft carrier cost $13.3 billion in total, and was approved by the U.S. Navy in late 2021.

Initially, the aircraft carrier was expected to be deployed in 2017, eight years after the construction began in 2009, which is more than the usual aircraft carrier building timeframe of five years. But the difficulties in the development process and a series of delays due to reliability problems with multiple new technologies caused a five-year delay over the already longer than usual building timeframe.” Click here to read the rest of this article. Note: we make the world’s finest Navy Desk Name Plates and Navy Plaques.