Meet the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79): This New Aircraft Carrier Might Be the Navy's Best Ever

The Ford-class, including the under-construction USS John F. Kennedy, will be the world’s premier aircraft carrier. Frankly, the U.S. is uncontested with respect to aircraft carrier technology; the U.S. legacy fleets, like the Enterprise- and the Nimitz-class, which the Ford is replacing, are more advanced than any carrier in any other countries’ arsenal. But the Ford-class is forward-looking, designed to remain superior well into the future, even as China works to expand its naval capabilities and challenge U.S. hegemony.

[@stephenzucchari6937]

Kennedy was a true Navy hero and when they are done with his ship it will be the best one in the world and the USA will always be the best Military in the world.

[@NayoCastro]

Thank so much

[@tiomoidofangle102]

I served on the old Kennedy (CVA-67). Good times.

[@primpal08]

USS Enterprise (CVN-80) is next in line (expected to be operational by 2028.)

[@fernandomirandilla9088]

The Grey Ghost will return.

[@RonnieCurry-m5h]

We sure screwed up not saving the last "Big E"😢.

[@user-bd5md5cm2j]

Your right. We have all these Nimitz group that are in working condition there scrapping instead of keeping them running at the face of the wars coming. Our Congress's incompetentacy is relentless. How stupid could the be???

[@charlesmaurer6214]

If they don't revert to the prior plan and name her the Obama. Also would like to see other legacy names restored like Kittyhawk, Wasp and Hornet. Would love to see a Hornet's squadron of superhornets. "Hornet Actual to all Hornets return to home."

[@gpawoodyshoneyhole]

​@user-gw9jy6ox1z to update it from oil burning to nuclear you would have had to tear it down to almost a bare hull to replace everything. It was just a more feasible deal to build a completely new, better and easier updated carrier. These new cvn models can basically power a large part of a state if needed. Something the Nimitz class and prior classes just couldn't do.

[@robertward5368]

First of all, aircraft carriers are ships, not boats. And only the lead ship in the class, USS Gerald R. Ford, will cost $13billion. That is because the lead ship always costs more and takes more time to make it combat-ready since it is used to work out all the inevitable bugs in the new technologies the class incorporates. This can be a very expensive process when a new class incorporates as many new technologies as the Ford class does. Those bugs have now largely been worked out, and subsequent members of the class will cost significantly less, at least when their cost is adjusted for inflation. Also, the experience gained by shipyard workers in building the lead ship and each subsequent ship in the class leads to familiarity with its construction for additional efficiencies as more ships are built. The same, by the way, is true for military aircraft such as the F-35. The unit cost of that plane, when adjusted for inflation and the incorporation of upgrades, decreases with each new production block even as combat effectiveness increases.

[@philchristmas4071]

Agree with what you said but it also helped that President Trump renegotiated the F-35 price. I wish more of our politicians would hold our defense contractors accountable and help drive down the cost. Just like the Marines growler and LCS, people need to be held accountable and these prices would drop. They need to be held accountable when they don't meet deadlines too. The Constellation class ship has already been pushed back a year on the first ship.

[@MichaelCrumley-oi6qd]

We in the Navy call all ships "BOATS"

[@RonaldReeve-j5z]

And yet the uss Iowa class still drops more TNT then any aircraft carrier

[@1231Ling]

Nice looking BOAT

[@robertward5368]

Perhaps, but nowhere near as far and with nowhere near the accuracy as attack aircraft or drones with precision-guided munitions. The Iowas still have their uses in modern war, most notably shore bombardment in support of amphibious landings, for which they can wield more firepower at the ranges required for less cost than any other kind of ship. They could also be converted for many other purposes. One of them would be a the installation of a large number of vertical launch missile cells, giving them a long-range strike capability or enabling them to take up once again the function they spent most of their time on during World War Two, serving as enormous antiaircraft (and now antimissile) escorts for the carriers. Keeping them around a while longer is still a good idea.

[@vipertt100]

Wanna bet this is narrated by an ai?

[@mrknotthall]

You’re probably right. Who says “PT one hundred nine”?

[@karroq]

The way it said "project power" was a giveaway.

[@Wild_Danimal]

Almost all of them are

[@DerekSansone]

@@mrknotthall Either AI or Idiots. We now hv a lot of both. "PT One Hundred Nine." Yeah, how many wldn't think twice when hearing that? Sad.

[@Allmotorzl1]

It's everywhere now.

[@glicerioumali941]

I WAS ONBOARD CV67 FROM 1981 TO 1984. 2 BATTLE E, 2 SUPPLY BLUE ETC. RECEIVED BUTTENBERG AWARD ALSO, THE FIRST AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO RECEIVED THE AWARD. ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@IamGroot786]

I did my Med cruise on USS Kennedy CV-67 back in the mid 90's. Lots of memories...

[@jessikat6692]

I was on the CV67 from 93-97. Still have my '93 "25 years of Service" Cruise Book. Was a BM3 in Deck Department. Great memories.

[@IamGroot786]

@@jessikat6692 We probably ran into each other dude. I remember that visit to Ireland in 1996, that was pretty rocking! I was assigned to VF-41.

[@owenwright2365]

The USS Enterprise is going to be the Navy's best aircraft carrier ever built. The aircraft carrier will the latest in technology equipment classified.

[@davewitter6565]

What good is classified if you can take and hide Ts/SCIF documents and claim they are your property.

[@captainrevenge5960]

Gerald R Ford was on the light carrier USS Monterey, during a typhoon the ship took a nasty list to port and Mr. Ford slid across the open deck but grabbed the railing along the edge that sits just above the catwalk that saved him from drowning.

[@robertyoung3992]

Typhoon Cobra in late 1944

[@michaelflorez4194]

He had some one looking over his shoulder

[@robertyoung3992]

Typhoon Cobra 16 thru 18 December 1944 aka Halsey's Typhoon

[@davelew86]

I served aboard CV-59 with VF-11. That's 20 carriers ago 😮

[@richardivey1585]

I suspect this was done by an AI that guessed at some of the facts. Obviously narrated by a computer.

[@johnjones5354]

And badly. I quit halfway through, couldn't take any more.

[@russellloomis4376]

​@@johnjones5354there are worse videos out there. This one is actually pretty good in my opinion.

[@tomasthomas8563]

E-mals not E-mails

[@skranz2732]

Project as in project force is pronounced differently than project as in a project due by Monday. Definitely AI voice 😣

[@RushOutdoors]

What does 120 billion get you??? It gets you Freedom that simple!!!!!

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

What do* 120 billion get you?

[@RushOutdoors]

@@einundsiebenziger5488 Freedom and the greatest country in the world! Don't like it move on!

[@byronlemay2166]

It gets the top dogs in the program really nice house and cars.

[@RushOutdoors]

@@byronlemay2166 Yep! and if you were that smart you would have it also! But here you are!!! Lol!!!

[@byronlemay2166]

You don't get it...we're all being screwed.@@RushOutdoors

[@HHGaming-yh12]

I like how Modern Warships makes the type 003 useless in the game but the Gerald R Ford very effective

[@PBurns-ng3gw]

As my AI grandpa used to say, "PT One-hundred-nine."

[@epiclyng]

thats a badass looking boat

[@thomasferrari6465]

You know, here's another thing to think about of saving these ships. Cause there's 25% of the money to fix up and used again granted their old, but if we were at war, you NBD commission.The only thing I got to say is sure we need ships but the old ships should not be decommissioned they still have a use cuz they cost too much and take too long to build these old aircraft carriers could get turned into drone carriers they still haven't used

[@IamGroot786]

It'd seem that way, but retrofitting older vessels with the latest navigational, weapons or targeting systems is extremely expensive and in some cases right down impossible. In addition, operating any diesel powered vessel is a losing proposition and limiting to the Navy. The Navy tried this route with the battleships back in the 90's during the gulf war by retrofitting USS Wisconsin with missiles and realized how expensive that became.

[@robinwhitlatch4497]

@@IamGroot786the battle wagons when brought back to active service in late 80’s & early 90’s cost a fortune in diesel per day when they were under way. I had a friend who was an engineer on the first crew of the New Jersey when she was re commissioned. They cost a fortune to operate when underway but boy oh boy were they ever a sight to behold at sea especially when those 16” cannons were being fired!

[@IamGroot786]

@@robinwhitlatch4497 Exactly.

[@stolnpckup]

My brother was on the original JFK.

[@shorifmiah2680]

This 💗 Amazing 👏 Aircraft Cariya ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@crazedvole]

I think this is the second ship named after JFK. Not the third.

[@williamgray8499]

Whoever wrote the script, probably got confused with the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. which was named for the President's older brother. he was a US Naval Aviator who was killed in WW2. I think that it is a museum ship. I don't remember where.

[@Dr3amChas3r02]

Is it just me or are these random vids with old stock footage and ai generated voice and prompts getting annoying?

[@superhumanhumansuper8706]

just you 😂

[@chriscampion9906]

"Boats are up to 40 feet , ships all above".

[@RKZX2]

Maybe. But ive done 3 contracts at PSNS, Bremerton shipyard. (Nimitz, Stennis, Maine. Contractors & ships force all say boat.

[@davidsyes5970]

Also, to be geeky or technical, boats leain into their turn, whereas ships lean out away from their turn. Ships can self-deploy across oceans, whereas boats normally can, especially not thousands of miles. Generally, ships can carry boats and ships (recall the massive transport ship that carried ships that had smaller ships stacked crosswise), but boats cannot carry ships. Most ships will be of the displacement type, as in when at rest or moving, push a LOT of water aside, whereas boats when at speed have most of thei hull above the watet at sea level. A ship plowing through water when at speed - as opposed to boats, which usually will plane or ride above the water up to maybe the first third to 2/3 of the waterline length -will appear to be planing, but they probably are not fully laden/loaded. In that case, they're likely fiercely climbing their own wave, not getting to the point of appearing to launch themselves airborne. Generally, boat, when used regarding/describing submarines, will be used by submariners. In my day in the 80s Navy, woe be unto any sailor who referred to the ship as a boat and got overheard. (In my case, I started reading sbout the Navy feom my 4th grade year, but began reading C. B. Colby books by ~3rd grade, IIRC.) Generally, civilians who have next to no meaningful nexus to maritime world vessels or to military vessels will misuse or interchange boat and ship. It wouldn't be hard for teachers to instill the difference in high schoolers any more than it would be hard for a biology teacher or a chemistry teacher to insist kids correctly name the cells, blastona, nuclei, electron valences, and so on. But... Didn't mean to appear to be one-upping you. Cheers!

[@spudhut2246]

Uh - Boats are Submarines, Ships that stay the surface are Ships. 😜

[@frostycools1315]

ships have sails boats do not ,,, has nothing to do with how long it is lol

[@adamwarren9117]

As a Navy veteran and former submariner we call all our subs boats...

[@justtruth8281]

Project air, power, or project air power?

[@cashewnuttel9054]

What I want to know is can this feed poor people?

[@glenndower2513]

Never, ever EVER heard it pronounced "PT One hundred nine." It has always been "PT One-Oh-Nine".

[@25mfd]

right... damn AI basterds

[@lt_dreams96]

Its an auto generated narration. They're getting undetectable

[@rcpmac]

It's a bot and a lazy editor who doesn't even proof the audio. All they have to do is write it out like you did.

[@markalexander832]

@@rcpmac That doesn't cover repeatedly mispronouncing "project," which is pronounced differently depending on context. What is wrong with using a true human voice?

[@davidsyes5970]

See, the narrator (artificial or not) would have dodged scrutiny if it had been that McHale's Navy and the fictional PT-73 were the comparison, hehehe. I, too, heard "PT-One-Hundred-and-Nine" and groaned. I actually bailed out. But, minutes later, I returned to see what else my make me desperately need a drink, or feel glad I gave the AI a second chance. (Still, I blame Google and KZbin and whatever AI they're using. If the underlying AI were substituted in for humans making enemy contact reports, any given military may as well commit seppuku or with vigor and enthusiasm jump off a cliff. The captions are utterly, intractabl-y abominable. AI-supplied captions simply and absolutely MUST be domain aware. The captions grab all the wrong forms, truncate, butcher, and do stupid things like: multi-roll (vs the correct multi-role) ship. Yeh, if the ship's in a severe NorthLant winter storm it'll roll multiple times and whip about destructively if not brought under control... And uppercasing a target as "Target", as in the brand, the store. Even if Google and KZbin need or want money, they have a **duty** to not memorialize or consign to future generations myriad and sundry wholly-avoidable trash captions. Failing to embrace that means no AI should be taken seriously if from a company that prioritizes profit over accuracy and legacy. Why? Well, they tout approaching AGI. Even a grade schooler can anticipate and use the correct and expected acronym or term once sufficiently educated or regularly exposed to given words. These billionaires and billion dollar valuation companies cash in on people too lazy to exercise their brains and get (them) hooked on the virtual heroin of the FOMO ticking clock. An AGI supplying captions absolutely must know its conversation context, what imagery is in the video, and lightning-fast ONLY grab the contemporaneously valid anecdotal licensed or public domain images or proper, acceptable contextual phrases and terms. (It's why courts ruthlessly HAMMER lazy lawyers who blindly trust AI.) It is so cringe worthy when in a vid about, say, a PLAN carrier under construction the AI content generator grabs the Ford Class construction imagery. And, Google is/was/is a contractor to various militaries of the world. I hope they're getting their money's worth and don't have to keep correcting the AI.) My perspective is from watching WW2 movies in the '70s, and then as a Radioman from '86-'88, reading the JANAP/NATO/ACP and numerous other pubs and being a professional user of the voice comms and teletypes aboard the John A. Moore (FFG-19), as well as having stood helm watches part of '85 and '86 in my 15 months aboard the "Flexible" Flint (AE-32) as a non-rate. It is impressive and spine tingling how much pain the militaries endure to ensure proper enunciation, articulation, diction, and more go into eliminating or reducing written and spoken long and abbreviated communications error. What is cringe and offensive is when Hollyweird and others let escape the editing bay or post production "Over and Out." That is bonehead incorrectly-used communications phraseology. "Over" means "Your turn to speak", and "Out" means the speaker is done and is terminating its side of the link or circuit. "Out" is the same as hanging up on somebody without at all listening to hear a plea to hang on a sec. So, to say "Over and out* is not only incorrect, as it means "I've said my bit, am hanging up, but, yeh, you go ahead and speak - I'm gone...", it's something that is monitored for correctness and means the (clear or encrypted) circuit monitor or Net guard station will report the ship for incorrect radio usage. Yeah, that's a real thing. Captains and CIC and Radio personnel get written up and lose points. And, that actually hurts. It isn't casual. Sadly, Hollyweird is insular and often refuses to abide by real military advisors the studios pay for for authenticity. Sometimes, big-headed actors do what they want, or directors don't care, and let it out. And, sometimes it's sloppy advisors.) It's also likely why global business and air traffic control use English when outside of one's own country if English is not the local language.

[@JimmyJamm]

I was lucky enough to go on a dependence day cruise in the early 1970s aboard the original JFK.

[@kerentolbert5448]

The EMALS provide a steady thrust in launching various weights of aircraft than steam driven catapults.

[@vishalvishwakarma5654]

Yes I want it..when it gets ready 🎉

[@Chris_at_Home]

Isn’t it ironic that the military industrial complex builds a carrier and then its named after someone that was against them. President Kennedy was for a strong military but not for fighting other countries wars.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

Well, JFK made the US engange in Vietnam which ultimately turned into a totally unnecessary war against a country and its people that would never have posed any threat to the USA.

[@georgebarad5093]

America is great, Awesome

[@joenop3393]

1:04 Thats PT 1 O 9!

[@mrknotthall]

Can you believe he said “PT one hundred nine”? LOL, clueless.

[@EDouble1]

George Bush was a naval pilot who was shot down in the pacific and rescued by a submarine crew. He was the only survivor of his four man crew. On his 18th birthday he enlisted in the armed forces. The youngest pilot in the Navy when he received his wings, he flew 58 combat missions during World War II. That is way more significant than Kennedy's pt boat story.

[@stanhill4555]

Yes I was on old enterprise can’t wait for new one my dad did maiden voyage on Kennedy so this one has meaning for me too

[@daviddrotar410]

I can't wait to see these beautiful and powerful aircraft carriers sail side by side togather! CVN 78 The USS Gerald R. Ford and the CVN 79 USS John F. Kennedy in 2025. DD. 🌊 🇺🇸📡🛰👍

[@williamdecker9947]

I will never in my lifetime buy another TYSON product again!!!

[@sheilatruax6172]

????

[@etowahman1]

So how far over budget and behind schedule is this one?

[@lisaroberts8556]

I think the Kennedy is on time. And now the hull is being put down for the New USS Enterprise. So the Carrier program unlike some of the other Naval Projects are on time.

[@Gridlocked]

It’s not.

[@georgebarad5093]

Wow Awesome

[@edithasobrepena4680]

Mabuhay kayo america mahal namin kayo

[@LordBuckhouse]

We need to get the USS Kennedy on duty ASAP. Two Ford class carriers pack a lot of offensive punch. And when Enterprise comes online that is even better. Moreover, any Nimitz class carriers that are decommissioned need to be kept in a state where they can be brought back to service ASAP.

[@hlg2491]

The thought that the Navy would name a ship after a man who stated that “only suckers would serve “ and mocked John McCain who was a POW saying “I don’t like people who get captured during war “

[@michaelflorez4194]

That draft dodger

[@rayj1131]

How he says “project” is killing me!

[@LordBuckhouse]

I think the USA should build a Ford class carrier for Japan. If they want one.

[@morkathkennady8931]

That is amazing 🎉

[@EDGARALANPANGILINAN]

USN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS: projecting 'military power' worldwide - greetings from the phillipines😊

[@lucymuttdmire1008]

We are better off staying out of foreign wars. The cost to America in terms of lives lost and money spent is horrendous.

[@StanModGaming]

JFK named on 3 separate ship? i only know the kitty hawk and the Gerald Ford class so what's the third one?

[@Peace2U-ec6es]

Good video if you mute the audio.

[@alfa8822]

Not sure why you said the PLAN was launching these vehicles and then the US was. US has been using this method forever. The PLAN can’t get theirs to work and they skipped over steam catapult. This is why their ship is still in dock. They have already faced delays. Even though you said it’s not sure if they will.

[@juliusdatuvillanueva2400]

thats uss kennydy cnv-79 carriers ships its a nice ships very awsome ships god bless america

[@RobertMattison-pp6uf]

I like to think that people serving on our Country Nuclear Aircraft Carriers are the best this Country has to offer along with these people serving aboard the Submarine Service.

[@Aaditya-b5z]

USS Donald Trump exists Pulls out A helicarrier 💀

[@charlesacker8552]

There was a USS John P. Kennedy, a supply ship built in 1853. Maybe that why they said it was the third ship to bear the name, but clearly not President Kennedy's name.

[@rossmansell5877]

In the 1950s HMS Eagle launched over 100 sorties/24 hrs armed and fuelled on excerscise in the Med with the USN...1950s!!.....and it was amechanical cats they had then.....

[@gandydancer823]

Jimmy Carter came from the silent service. So the USS Jimmy Carter is a fast attack submarine

[@ivanrivas9094]

This must be an AI talking. Too many mispronounced words.

[@paulsmith1981]

Aircraft carriers were the apex sea weapon during WW2 due to the superior range advantage of their aircraft over conventional big gunned battle ships. Roll on 80 years and missiles have ranges of thousands of miles which gives them a superior range advantage over aircraft carriers. Add in modern subs and these ships look like vanity projects.

[@mickeysmiths]

I like it! Love from 🇦🇺

[@michaelburke9510]

Only 2 ships were named for John F. Kennedy, the third was a destroyer named for his brother Joseph P. Kennedy

[@chrismaggio7879]

That's correct. And there was that carrier that was named after Arthur J Enterprise ... no? Not even close?

[@g-man2228]

Finally….🇺🇸

[@jeffpowell6224]

EMALS, not emails. There is no I!

[@Makeitso2023]

Which carrier is next after the enterprise? Nimitz? Hornet?

[@shaung8182]

Well done lads!!! Great ships from Shaun of Wales uk

[@larrymondello8475]

Thank you

[@phil20_20]

"Might be?!"

[@denniss1211]

You need to state the cost of the older ships in today's dollars ... It will make for a MUCH better comparison.

[@chrismaggio7879]

I am a Plankowner on the USS Abraham Lincoln CVN72. We were looking at $7 Billion back in 1990 for her build. Extravagant cost for that time.

[@josefhyatt2780]

And yet to this day, no one has explained how a 30 kt destroyer was able to ram a 50 kt PT boat...I have always had serious questions about the ramming of PT-109.

[@texoutlaw1732]

Not emails, EMALS

[@robertsnead6844]

EMRAILS don't work at sea if the expansion joints forward and amidships still run under the cat track thus misalignment of the catapult at sea

[@robertosovietunion7567]

The first USS JOHN F. KENNEDY CVA 67 is Kitty Hawk class just like USS AMERICA CVA 66 and USS CONSTELLATION CVA 64 is also Kitty Class Aircraft Carrier and now the new USS JOYN F. KENNEDY CVAN 79 is a Gerald Ford class airceaft carrier

[@robertyoung3992]

CVN-79

[@CocoaBeachLiving]

Informative video. But the AI pronunciation of EMALS made me think of the word emails.. Lol... Someone not familiar with the new catapult system might think we're going to launch ac with emails... 😮

[@tseringwangchuk4371]

U S right keep it up.

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

Imagine if we had the equivilent in space. Not ten but one in orbit.

[@alistair4937]

Can't wait to see the USS Donald Trump.

[@arcangelkriz1561]

How bout the Biden lol 😂

[@timtorkelson7201]

Make the USS Biden a test ship for torpedoes!!!😂

[@lisaroberts8556]

Some were on that future Boat. You would need the Key Gold Signature Trim 🔑 🇺🇸

[@johnylee9896]

Iam sure trump deserve his name on aircraft carrier or least an life boat

[@gpawoodyshoneyhole]

Itl be gold lol

[@Shipspotting_Vietnam]

Super big!!

[@kennethclaytonjr387]

I am so amazed how the words used in their videos do not reflect what they are actually trying to say. The US Military PROJECTS power around the work. It is not a project. The BOW of a Naval vessel is not a bow for birthday present. Is English their first language? Sounds like a person trying to learn English. If you want to be confused, watch their videos.

[@gregrazook8588]

I wonder if the audio is AI.

[@5thGenNativeTexan]

02:09 "To PRO ject power" not "PRAH ject power. PROjecting means to put something forth, such as military power. "PRAH"ject is something you work on.

[@tre_techie]

Please also cover the new China aircraft carrier killer hypersonic missiles too. Thank you.

[@robertsnead6844]

According to the definition of a ship only boat carriers are real ships. 2 current boat carriers can lift an aircraft carrier out of the water. Since there's 8 boat/ship carriers we only have 4 ships. Look at the definition. A boat is any craft that can be lifted onto a ship.

[@RandyAlegado-b2p]

We love USAF the protector of DEMOCRACY 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@DrMatey215]

Cool

[@ricdale7813]

I like foreign produced narration with just enough miss translation too let me know how authentic something US Navy will be.

[@timfremstad3434]

You notice that too? They sound very Russian at that

[@theasmrhistorian8238]

lots of mispronounced words, still an interesting video.

[@dsemasin]

Definitely improvement is still needed with auto generated narration.

[@Andrew-is7rs]

QE is more advanced than the Nimitz. In fact it uses a 1/4 of a Ford crew, has a higher sortie rate than they do too. Yes, emals and yes nuclear, but still needs at sea replenishment for aviation fuel and food, so the QE can stay at sea almost indefinitely too just like a Ford can. Ford is amazing, but so is the QE

[@bignoe1453]

Why decommission functioning ships in place of new ones why not just expand the fleet?

[@MrSchwabentier]

because that means you would also need to build more support ships, buy more planes, train more crews etc. Even the US budget isn't unlimited

[@tinman3586]

I could think of quite a few better names for the most modern class of American aircraft carriers than Gerald Ford.

[@666-Ba_Ba_ya_ga]

Good luck 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@SmartSolutionsforAmerica]

The largest and most effective aircraft carrier ever designed. This MRLAVE is designed to facilitate landing and taking off multiple aircraft from a steady and larger platform. See here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIGmf4N3ob6Mqqc

[@kerentolbert5448]

The commentator here characterize the aircraft carriers as floating cities, which are more in-line with an airport that floats, a floating airport.

[@edwardmayer6453]

First of all whoever you are that wrote this video it is not a boat it is called a ship. Former USN sailor let's get it right thank you

[@mikercflyer7383]

How do you defend against an hypersonic weapon?

[@gpawoodyshoneyhole]

Carrier groups won't let anything near these ships. Hypersonic has been around for a long time and clearly isn't anything we worry about.

[@invoxicated]

@@gpawoodyshoneyhole The HELIOS system. High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance. Hypersonic missiles are extremely slow compared to the speed of light. The Ford class carriers will be outfitted with them. Checkmate.

[@deanladue5367]

When Ukraine was given Patriot anti missile batteries, they began shooting down hypersonics left and right. In fact they shot down 6 missiles in one day with the Patriot. I'm sure these newer carriers have even more advanced anti missile systems aboard.

[@darkstorminc]

​@@deanladue5367 carriers rarely carry a lot of AA weapons. That is the job for the rest of the fleet.

[@Gridlocked]

The Patriot batteries in Ukraine have been shooting down hypersonic missiles without issue. Navy boats have anti-air systems such as the Patriot but on steroids.

[@scotttild]

I hate when someone calls something the best ever when it is literally the exact same thing as the other Ford class carriers, it is not one thing different then the Ford carrier so why is this any better. Its also absurdly expensive we have 12 and no other country has more then 2. Absurd waist of money.

[@worldcitizennews]

Hate to break the news to you but from space these ships are SITTING DUCKS!!!

[@georgebarad5093]

Us navy is great

[@marinvrabelj4198]

Wasn't Kenny on Epst's List?

[@MrSchwabentier]

How? Epst was 10 when Kennedy died.

[@davidsyes5970]

E-mals, not emails. Mah, like long a in cat. ProJECT power, not Prah-ject power. This must be an AI presenter. This is prevalent and pervasive across much of KZbin these days. Some vids upper-case target as Target, as if a military target is the trademark store. Google and KZbin need to either compel pre-release edits, or the two need to freely supply domain-aware AI if Google wants to be taken seriously. The presenter seems to have missed that one of the major selling points of EMALS is the greatly-reduced wear and tear on airframes, pilots, COD crews, and the CATOBAR gear. IIUC, these Ford hulls can recover aircraft with.ore onboard fuel snd ordnance than the prior generations. The presenter slso missed that the apparently now-working bomb lifts can deliver ordnance faster to the flight deck than can prior CVNs. Still, I was glade to see the Big E, a ship I sailed on for a few hours, in '83, as an NJROTC cadet in a Bay Area unit invited to sail with family and dignitaries and media. (Sea off Farallons got so rough after the F-14 fly-bys that we all had to be inside the skin of the ship so no one got injured.) Later, when I joined "The Nav", my first ship was the now-Ex-USS Flint (AE-32), homeported out of Concord, but we holed-up mostly at NAS Alameda, at NAC Oakland, and occasionally at shipyards off the Embarcadero. We once or twice in my 14 mos aboard the "Flexible Flint" did CONREPS with the Enterprise of EastPac. Was glad, also, to see JFK, my childhood war hero since my 4th grade year. Carter is another of my favorite sailors. Was stunned to learn Nixon was a naval officer. Despite my criticism over some pronunciations, I appreciate the visual stimulus in the images and video.

[@einundsiebenziger5488]

I was glad* to see the bis E. Please, if you critisize someone else's pronunciation and spelling, you need to pay attention yourself.

[@JSwan-bd1tc]

$120B development cost, we've given more to Ukraine in the last three years.

[@pickle4422]

$11.82 Billion, where are you getting that $120B from?

[@steppahouse]

Getting to the point where I'm going to start avoiding AI-narrated video.

[@josephc6350]

Gotta love the AI

[@johnbarry5036]

3:24 us alone spends $100 Billion on cosmetics alone annually. JFK sounds like a bargain to me.

[@GeorgePDancejr]

I think the current combat superiority lies in the Air Force and Space Force, not the Navy. Destructive power and flight distance of ultra-high-speed missiles. Securing super powerful lasers and air superiority. Aircraft carriers such as the CVN-79, D-Reagan, and Next Generation (CVN-80) can carry nuclear weapons, such as the Russian Iskander and Avangard missiles (both Mach 25), but they can also carry conventional bombs. . Both are vaporization bombs ``Solntzepek'' and ``high-power dropped fuel vaporization bombs,'' with a power equivalent to 44 tons of TNT, and can sink an aircraft carrier with a single bomb. ‼

[@thatfatguy7591]

Government: *Assasinates Kennedy* Also Government: honors Kennedy with aircraft carrier

[@rogerthat4545]

Sources? That sounds like something an idiot would literally make up with absolutely no evidence.

[@MASMIWA]

Let's see. The EMALS on the Ford still has a reliability problem, it is failing about 15% of its design MTBF. That doesn't sound so good for the US Navy. It also has problems with the blast shields and the elevators. The EMALS problem is said to be a design problem and won't be resolved until 2025. How that affects the Kennedy, remains to be seen. Further, it sounds like the plan for 12 super carriers is on hold while the Navy rethinks its future. The current thinking sounds like the US may back off on super carriers and opt for more small ships, like destroyers. It seems that in today's world, carriers are just a big missile target and can't get in range to launch its aircraft.

[@kevincarr335]

how to pronounce "project"?