Ford-Class Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier

Navy News
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va.  — The champagne bottle hit the cold steel hull and bounced off it did not break. Undaunted, the Honorable Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and daughter of the late President John F. Kennedy pulled back and again swung the glass bottle with the force of a baseball player hitting a home run.Uttering for the second time in 52-years Kennedy the words “I christen thee United States Ship John F. Kennedy, may God bless this ship and all who sail her” – the second swing did the job.

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Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., the chairman of the House Seapower and Expeditionary Forces subcommittee, discusses the outlook for defense spending now that Democrats control the House, naval readiness implications if President Trump declares a national emergency to build a border wall with military construction funding, whether more subs will be built with the $4 billion savings from the deal to buy two Ford-class carriers at the same time, the Navy’s shifting statements on 355-ships and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian on Capitol Hill. We spoke with Courtney, who represents New England’s largest military installation, the Navy’s submarine base in New London, on the sidelines of the Amphibious Warship Industrial Base Coalition.

SNA 2019
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Vice Adm. Tom Moore, USN, the commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command, discusses US Navy efforts to increase public and private ship repair capabilities, lessons learned from repairing USS John S. McCain and Fitzgerald, the new Ford-class aircraft carrier, getting the Littoral Combat Ship on regular deployments and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association annual conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference and tradeshow in Northern Virginia. We are an SNA media partner for the event and our coverage is sponsored by Huntington Ingalls Industries, GE Marine, L3 Technologies and Leonardo DRS.