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Navy Starts Looking At Carriers After CVN-81

Thursday, February 14th, 2019

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Navy Starts Looking At Carriers After CVN-81

An F/A-18F Super Hornet, launches off USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) flight deck during flight operations March 29, 2020 while underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

SAN DIEGO-- Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly said now that the Navy found a way to build two new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers while saving money it is starting to look at future carrier procurement, which might be very different. Last month, the Navy officially signed a $15 billion contract with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] to buy two Ford-class carriers at once, the future USS Enterprise (CVN-80) and CVN-81, to save about $4 billion over the…

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