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Ford Carrier To Deploy By Fall, Navy Says

Monday, January 24th, 2022

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Ford Carrier To Deploy By Fall, Navy Says

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) completes the first scheduled explosive event of Full Ship Shock Trials while underway in the Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2021. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Navy’s latest aircraft carrier, the first in its class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), is expected to deploy “by this fall,” the Navy’s program executive officers for aircraft carriers told reporters last Friday. “She will do workups over this spring and summer…the plan is toward the end of this summer she goes. She’s going to visit multiple theaters of operations with multiple allies and her strike group and her wing,” Rear Adm. James Downey told reporters during a media…

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