The aircraft carrier’s sailing comes amid the Ukraine war and tensions between Moscow and the West, as well as Seoul’s announcement on Wednesday that it, along with Washington, launched a barrage of missiles into the sea, in response to Pyongyang’s launch of a ballistic missile over Japan.
According to a video clip broadcast by the US Navy on its Facebook site, on Wednesday, the aircraft carrier “Gerald R. Ford”, nicknamed “American Monster”, left the largest naval base in the world in Norfolk, Virginia, along with other battleships and ships that make up a carrier group. attack aircraft.
First flight details:
According to a US Navy statement, the aircraft carrier is scheduled to join ships from countries including France, Germany and Sweden in various exercises.
• The exercises simulate the war on submarines in the Atlantic Ocean.
• The exercises come 7 months after Russia’s war on Ukraine
• A period of rising tension between Moscow and the West.
What is “Gerald R. Ford”?
• It was named after US President Gerald Ford.
• Designed to carry a variety of aircraft.
• Only 600 sailors operate, unlike the rest of the carriers.
• The announcement of its publication came 5 years after its entry into the service.
• Suffered problems including the aircraft launch system and elevators that transport missiles and bombs to aircraft on the flight deck.
• She underwent tests over a year and a half to withstand the shocks of any war operations, including the test of detonating a 40,000-pound bomb near her.
• It had repairs and maintenance for 6 months.
• According to military estimates, its cost amounted to 13 billion dollars.
What are its capabilities?
• Its length is about 333 meters.
• Its width is about 78 meters.
• Its height is 76 meters.
• It has extraordinary technical specifications.
• Its speed is more than 30 knots.
• It can carry up to 76 warplanes of several models.
• Displacement up to 100,000 tons
• It has three launchers compared to two in the previous version.
• It operates a completely new launch system known as EMALS, which is the electromagnetic aircraft launch system.
• Equipped with anti-ship missile systems, in addition to various combat systems
• It operates with two A1B nuclear reactors.
According to a report published by the “National Interest” website, earlier, the US Navy’s aircraft carrier fleet “remains the largest and most powerful in the world.”
The report pointed to the impact of the ten US aircraft carriers of the “Nimitz” class, which is a symbol of US military strength over the past decades.
The report considered that “the future of the US Navy’s tanker fleet lies in the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, which includes a number of improvements over its predecessor, the USS Nimitz.”
The American military expert, Peter Alex, says that it is the most powerful aircraft carrier in the world and an important addition to the US Navy, noting that it is distinguished by superior capabilities over its counterpart, “Nimitz”. In addition to its capabilities, the number of sailors serving on board decreases to about 20%, in addition to reducing maintenance requirements. future.
He added to “Sky News Arabia” that the aircraft carrier “successfully passed several tests, including the steam strike, air defense exercises, maritime awareness, the long-range naval strike, as well as naval integration, and participated in many training activities, and sailed more than once in the waters, which are It will be the largest ship in the world, without a doubt.”
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