It is expected that it will give the Navy the following year.
In the United States began the first test trips of the new project aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford.
On 8 April, the ship first went to sea trials.
On Board the ship is a huge number of workers, engineers and employees of the shipyard Newport News Shipbuilding. They provide tests of the ship and crew training.
Displacement of the vessel exceeds 100 thousand tons will be based 90 aircraft – fighters, electronic warfare aircraft, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles.
The contract for the construction of an aircraft carrier cost $12.9 billion was signed in may 2004. The official groundbreaking ceremony took place on 13 November 2009. The ship date to the customer had to move more than three years due to the large number of new equipment, bringing which delays the construction.
It is expected that it will give the Navy the following year. It will last at least 50 years. In the US Navy in February 2017 has written off the world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier “enterprise”, built in 1961.
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