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USA armed with world’s most expensive military aircraft carrier

Acceptance tests of the ship took place on 26 may.

Shipbuilders handed over the naval forces of the United States aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, said in a statement the U.S. Navy.

Acceptance tests of the ship took place on 26 may. It is expected that the carrier will be ready for full-scale operation only in 2020, having up to this time few outlets to the sea for the “running” of combat and engineering systems.

The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford cost of about $ 13 billion is the most expensive warship in the world. Its construction started in 2009 and scheduled to end in September 2014.

Recall that Gerald R. Ford was launched in November 2013. At the time of its building was completed 70%.

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