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CVN-79 Is 75 Percent Structurally Finished, HII Says

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CVN-79 Is 75 Percent Structurally Finished, HII Says
A forward section of the future USS John F. Kennedy’s main deck is lifted into place at Huntington Ingalls Industry’s Newport News Shipbuilding. (Photo: John Walen/HII).

The next Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), is 75 percent structurally complete, shipbuilding Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] said on Monday.HII said this amount was achieved when it installed the 750-metric ton forward area of the ship’s main deck in the dry dock. CVN-79 is being built with modular construction, wherein small portions of the ship are welded together into a unit called a superlift.Each superlift is then outfitted with electrical equipment, piping, cable,…

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