Dry dock flooding for USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier

Susan Ford-Bales paid a visit to Newport News Shipbuilding where the USS Gerald R. Ford, named for her father, is being built.

[@bigalmou2261]

After looking up some boat launch videos, you can imagine my disappointment at seeing it done this way. Don't be pussies, throw that 64,000 metric ton beast into the water like champs.

[@lr_korone_suki267]

Thing would have been fliped or suffer maijor damage thoo...

[@trevelyandovah8479]

Too big for that.

[@_Super_Hans_]

See this David Cameron this is what we need, let's get us one of those built.

[@williampage3481]

+HMSDefender D36 good we need a aircraft carrier

[@NoLoseJustLearn]

No. Don't start down the road of "we need the biggest military" it leads to shit like trump and the inbred cultists preaching his teachings.

[@russwhitley7156]

Always Good Ships

[@kalpeshwani8520]

Good cross sectional view bottom, top , mid half-way.

[@dklande]

Actually the USS Enterprise that the Ford is replacing is not on "it's last scheduled deployment" as stated in the video. The Enterprise has already been deactivated 10 months ago and is already in the process of defueling (which means that she is partially cut open and not even fit for service any more). Looking forward to seeing the Gerald R. Ford in service though. As well as the second and third ships of the class in the future, the third one being the future ninth USS Enterprise.

[@vodhiambo]

Let adversaries of the world be on notice

[@arjitboro4650]

Wow great

[@SerenaHew]

I love uss enterprise cv-6

[@Sebastian-hg3xc]

So you show the *beginning* of the dry dock flooding and the rest is some uninteresting people talking? I'd say misleading title. Please stay off the internet. Nobody wants old TV here.

[@Raised_by_God]

man, this woman is a real piece of work aint she?

[@geomodelrailroader]

with the Flooding of the Dock only two milestones left Launch and Smashing the Bottle on the Haul

[@mikecimerian6913]

12B good book.

[@eastgrad2706]

did they say she was replacing the u.s.s. Enterprises ? I thought we just got a new Enterprise. wouldn't that one be replacing the old one ?

[@MrCcragg27]

oh i bet she helped alot at building this ship

[@gregorymcchain5241]

Don’t be a hypocrite. She’s more American than you could ever pray to be.

[@carl-cx9uh]

old CV-65 dies and this one replaces it.

[@stampede122]

From what I gathered, the will be an Enterprise of this class (the Gerald R. Ford class)

[@kevinjames9716]

funny how it wasnt built in michigan.

[@bobmarch8275]

Hope it dont trip and fall, LOL

[@kevinjacob5777]

nothing surprising 'MURICA

[@hardtokill9963]

kevin jacob Better than anything yall have up to date shit yall soviets and chinese are still back in cold war era shit get lost lol nice puppy though how cute

[@ragbolt1]

+Anthony Michalek "yall" *giggles*

[@NoLoseJustLearn]

wait why do you support slavery?