The USS Gerald R. Ford is the lead ship in a new generation of large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. Like every other major effort to transform U.S. Navy warfighting capabilities, the Ford has been criticized for taking too long, costing too much, and not living up to its advanced billing.
If these complaints have any validity, it is because the Ford design introduced two dozen new technologies into a vessel that looks similar to the Nimitz class of carriers it will replace.
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