The world's largest warship USS Gerald R Ford on her maiden deployment

Reporting from onboard the USS Gerald R Ford as she visited the UK. Article here: www.navylookout.com/up-close-...
The US Navy's new aircraft carrier is on her first operational deployment working with allies and partners and making her first overseas visits. Activities in this video include flying operations, launch and recovery using the new EMALS and AARG systems, work on the flight deck, UNREP and VERTREP, weapons elevators in use, gunnery exercises, missile loading and her arrival in the Solent for her visit to the UK.
Video footage: US Navy and Navy Lookout
Music: Digifunk / Rinse Repeat by DivKid & Shattered by Key of Moon
#ussgeraldrford #aircraftcarriers #usnavy #navalaviation

[@TheFly212]

America's NAVY is the greatest force projection the Earth has ever seen!

[@chrisward7582]

Much love from the U.K. Hope you all enjoyed your run ashore in Pompey :)

[@mrkeiths48]

Wow! What a beautiful ship. Love to see all the teamwork that goes into deploying an aircraft carrier. Kudos to all of my Navy brothers and sisters underway.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

Would be cool if we made a ship just covered in cwis and iron domes

[@Coinz8]

​@@TheAnnoyingBoss huh....thats....that's not such a bad idea...call it a defence ship or something.

[@craig4867]

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN-great aircraft carrier movie!

[@jacquelinelicht576]

Fair winds and following seas.....she's a baby getting her sea legs...congratulations to the greatest blue water Navy in the world..

[@noodles169]

I know the states have more than enough carrier support ships, but I'd love to see a British frigate or destroyer as part of the fleet. 🇬🇧🇺🇲

[@thecurlew7403]

The 45s are getting fixed only 1 available nope the US Navy rules the waves and has downe from 1945.

[@shinybaldy]

Maybe in a few years when all the type 45s undergo improvement programs so they can actually keep pace without overwhelming the electrical.

[@stabilis8895]

They don't need our ships, we'd simply be token support to make us look like we're doing something's worthwhile. Thank our previous 30 governments ....

[@thecurlew7403]

@@shinybaldy Yea uk forces are in a pityful state maybe we need to come under the US and chip in with them .

[@thecurlew7403]

@@stabilis8895 The only way to change the uk is for millions to hit the street protest until NHS education roads defence is sorted out and put honest people in power who will bring it about and get rid of the many bojo cameron and blair goon show for good.

[@henrikandreason7261]

Looks like a futuristic space cruiser with that control tower. Such a beauty of a ship, well done US greetings from Sweden.

[@trbarton743]

I served on the USS Coral Sea CVA 43. Loved seeing your photo of a new carrier. Interesting to see all of the aircraft moved to the hanger bay for the loading of supplies. Thanks for sharing.

[@elijahowens8507]

My dad Roy Owens served on that same ship.

[@evrydayamerican]

Awesome to see so much American and NATO fire power together.

[@luistpuig]

Great shots of a beautiful ship!!

[@alexanderleach3365]

Awesome carrier!

[@aleccap5946]

That's impressive 1188 feet long, more aircraft then a small airport and it fries my brain knowing it floats, i know its airpockets and design but

[@FourMaxK1]

Absolutely excellent video - kudos!!! The real Top Guns.

[@dustins.4666]

americans and brits have a pretty badass navy

[@amcds2867]

Great footage! Watching a part of what running operations on a carrier is like is very impressive. Thanks for the content.

[@dingdongdaddy589]

Wow the stats are incredible, thanks for sharing them!

[@babuvarghese6786]

Amazing Thank you !👏 💞💞💞👌

[@briaredpath9386]

Q the music 🥳 💪🏻 thank you US military 💖🤗

[@mickyday2008]

Awesome

[@paulkirkland3263]

A rather impressive vessel to say the least.

[@christophe2496]

This is huge !

[@allgood6760]

Cool ship👍

[@johndoran3274]

The navy guys are ok. They gave us a ride to the gulf and even shared their ice cream.

[@outremer91]

That's sick. I need one.

[@Jay-pq7nf]

Bro what 💀

[@ScienceChap]

Is EMALS launching aircraft without them having to use their afterburners? That's very impressive if so...

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

The last navy fighter to have to use afterburners to launch was the F-14A. All fighters since then, including the F-14B and F-14D use dry power on the catapult to avoid melting the barrier behind them and to keep the deck safer for those working near the planes. Afterburner take offs are a Hollywood/publicity thing now for the most part.

[@ElonMuckX]

Especially at 9:31

[@lightningxx]

its weird not seeing the steam but awesome at the same time!

[@alphalunamare]

A masterpiece of human endeavour! :-)

[@brian.7966]

are you serious?

[@alphalunamare]

@@brian.7966 Rigel 6 actually.

[@cuba3433]

Nais ...Super....beautiful !. Mamen.... Clases Gerald Ford .. In ?.. Super impresionante !..

[@michaelmitchell6629]

My first ship afs 4 awesome ship with 7th fleet

[@zabdas83]

What determines weather they take off in afterburner?

[@briaredpath9386]

Bring the Storm 🥳

[@michaelmitchell6629]

Very very good video Greetings from tiger town USA city of champions Massillon Ohio 55 miles from Cleveland my hometown is

[@dondonelson7908]

I’d like to see the time line of the next Gerald R Ford class aircraft carrier on how long it takes it to get to active duty. With all the growing pains of the USS Gerald R Ford had

[@frank-ko6de]

Probably a lot less now that they've figured out things. I think now they're going to building two at a time instead just one since the issues have been resolved. But,it's still going to be at least 7 years from when the carrier is built to when it becomes active to when it becomes fully deployed.👍👍👍👍.

[@rolandmiller5456]

@@frank-ko6de I'm pretty certain that time is going to get cut down somewhat. Is I understand the JFK is being fitted out right now. The Enterprise is next and then the Miller is next after that the Miller is not due out supposedly until 2030 although I sincerely doubt it's going to be that long.

[@frank-ko6de]

@@rolandmiller5456 The building of the ships are relatively quick. It's the sea trials and war readiness that takes time before the ships are deployed, regardless of when they are built.

[@svongsa]

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[@blakespower]

it was launched in 2013 I guess they have to make sure everything is well put together, maiden voyage October 2022

[@kronstudios]

Super Carrier

[@legiox3719]

China could only dream of operating a Carrier like this.

[@craig4867]

Don't laugh they have the largest Navy in the world right now larger than ours and getting larger by the day and give them time on their carriers, they'll get bigger as time goes on and they have hypersonic missiles that we cannot shoot down and they can take out a carrier faster than you can blink! As a fighter pilot they show us all this stuff to show us what we're up against and it's not pretty, China's main goal is World dominance and they pretty much own us right now everything you buy comes from China and they owe most of our politicians!

[@legiox3719]

@@craig4867 you do realize most of their fleet is just coastal ships? they have hardly anything that can be considered "open water" combat.

[@craig4867]

@@legiox3719 yeah I know this I'm in the military, but they're getting bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger every day and China's objective is world domination and the more we sit around sucking our thumb the worst it is going to get! There's an old saying, if you want peace, prepare for war and we need to put china back into the Stone age otherwise it's going to come back to bite us badly! Have a nice day!

[@legiox3719]

@@craig4867 first thank you for your service, but China to me is a paper tiger. They have no real world "war" experience since WW2. Building a military is nice and all, but having the logistical/leadership/capability experience to effectively operate one is another story. I don't even remember how much the US spends on logistics support units/structure alone.

[@craig4867]

@@legiox3719 that's a fatal mistake you just made and that is, never underestimate anybody and don't forget, China gave us problems in the Korean War and the Vietnam War and they haven't lost a man and I don't know how long but we have lost soldiers and a lot of soldiers and military personnel! They're no longer a paper tiger! They have hypersonic missiles now that can take out our ships and we have no defense against it and the military has admitted that because they're just too damn fast and they zig zag all over the place! They travel at speeds of over Mach 5 and they can be tipped with nuclear warheads! China wants world domination, not just Taiwan and if I was Taiwan, I would figure out a way to arm myself with nuclear weapons and that would stop China dead in it's tracks and the same applies to Australia! If General George Patton and Douglas MacArthur were alive today, they would have gone after China a long time ago! Unfortunately, we don't have military leaders like that anymore! They come across as weak!

[@jefferee2002]

Awe inspiring. And also. Please don't f with us.

[@brettwhittlesey6862]

I never understood why the carrier is in the lead of the strike group? shouldn't it be in the middle or even behind it? Can someone please explain why this is thank you

[@ThatCarGuy]

They generally aren't unless for posturing. They are generally in the center, look up carrier strike group formations.

[@brettwhittlesey6862]

@@ThatCarGuy thank you for letting me know I appreciate it

[@ThatCarGuy]

@@brettwhittlesey6862 anytime, have a good day/night

[@blakeh6250]

In transit most times a destroyer will be aft of carrier with plane guard duties..for search and rescue.

[@CrayonEater255]

Here is for posture, they’re also closer than they would in a real formation

[@ThatCarGuy]

Best carrier in the world, amazing work. Took awhile to get the kinks worked out, but in a time of such instability, glad to see her out and about. Will be sad to see the Nimitz get retired as more Ford class come out. Maybe the US can sell them to allies like France who also operate nuclear carriers or maybe even now Australia since they will be choosing between UK or US submarines. Maybe even the UK since they have ports large enough. Would be a shame to see the Nimitz go to the scrap yard/or get reused like they did to make the some parts on the Ford class.

[@advanceaustralia3321]

No one wants them. Too old and labour intensive.

[@barrymiller3385]

The Nimitz, great as she is, is more than 50 years old and costs a LOT to run. No other Navy could afford to take her on. But I'm sure China would take her off your hands. They would love to take a giant American carrier to pieces and find out how everything works!

[@ThatCarGuy]

@@advanceaustralia3321 Always someone being negative. Glad you speak for the world. They require less maintenance then conventional carriers do to less fueling needs and less moving parts. The downside is though refueling takes much longer.

[@advanceaustralia3321]

@@ThatCarGuy 5500 crew! Just because you don’t like facts, don’t dismiss them as ‘negative’. Australia and Canada would be far more interested in QE class supercarriers.

[@ThatCarGuy]

​@@barrymiller3385 The George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Harry S. Truman, John C. Stennis, George Washington and so on are nowhere near 50 years old. France has nuclear carriers... Why could they not afford it? Australia, the UK, etc have nuclear submarines(in AUS case are getting them), they could also afford it, as they would just have to pay to maintain it which is 234 million a year or 11.7 billion over 50 years. Why bring up China? "For perspective, a 1998 U.S. GAO report estimated the 50 year direct operating cost of a Nimitz class carrier at $11.7 billion, or about $234 million per year."

[@yodasmomisondrugs7959]

You weren't using copyrighted Top Gun music. Had to mute.

[@Anderixx]

01:42 German ship Hessen F221 :D

[@ii-ti9xt]

🦁🇩🇪👍

[@mitch_the_-itch]

This makes me want to fire up DCS. Is this the EM catapault, I dont see any Steam?

[@ThatCarGuy]

Yes this is an electromagnetic catapult

[@benjames370]

Its a new type of system that uses electro- magnetic power. Its a large part of the billions that went into developing this new ship.

[@michaelmitchell6629]

Man I miss my boatswain duties afloat but I did my time 6 honorable years Navy said unfit done after that.

[@weirdguy564]

All I want to know is if those weird EMALS catapults are working as intended or they a nightmare?

[@frank-ko6de]

What do you think is releasing those planes into the air. Have you never heard of magnetic levitation?😶😶😶😶

[@weirdguy564]

@@frank-ko6de it’s more about how often they break.

[@frank-ko6de]

@@weirdguy564 when have they broken????😶😶😶😶

[@weirdguy564]

@@frank-ko6de you have never had to deal with US military equipment, have you?

[@Saint_Vincent1735]

Hmmm I wonder if there's a submarine near by aswell

[@armouredreaper9050]

Fairly certain there is always one with a CTF.

[@blakeh6250]

Usually at least one

[@MinhTran-fc7jl]

carrier never operates alone, there are 50 miles ships radius around the carrier, I was on a FF, submarine hunter supporting the carrier battle group.

[@markmcginn8012]

No steam from the cats! Progress.

[@BagusWidyanto1978HappyIn1997]

We know it's Ford-class carrier because there are no smoke on the deck

[@lil----lil]

Fun fact: you don't need to pass the range to stay in the Navy. In the Army, that's a NO-GO!

[@juliorodriguez8829]

Lo siento porta aviones.

[@modelrailwaynoob]

The music let it down

[@benjames370]

The music was awesome!

[@tylerdurden4006]

Why only have aircraft from the 70's on it? Is that really the best you could do for how much was spent on it?

[@maxmoore9955]

INNIT.

[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

Compro 50 porta aviões para a marinha do Brasil e o projeto e a tecnologia para a marinha do Brasil

[@michaelmitchell6629]

To bad my ship not around Uss new jersey bb 62 us navy most past powerful ship 19 battle stars WW2 my ship wom I was on her in gorgeous long beach CA old navy base. During first Lebanon war. I was best good helmsman Deck dept first division boats I was

[@tstahler5420]

Is it me, or with the island moved aft, she looks sportier? 😂

[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

Compro a fragata toda por 900 trilhões manda para a marinha do Brasil do Amazonas

[@kbarrett63]

0 to 30+mph in 5 minutes :)

[@unschomefleet4743]

All of Europe likes Us navy because their navies aren't much compared to ours

[@felixmonagas3972]

pues solo no pero toda Europa unida ,no digo que superior ,pero nada que envidiar a la EEUU

[@stevennewman8276]

I call gun! I wanna operate gun!!!

[@michaelmitchell6629]

I can not wait till cvn 79 deploys

[@AA-xo9uw]

You a Kennedy groupie?

[@donaldpate1863]

Why's that? Got a fresh batch of boys waiting ?

[@SuperRealityKid]

The view of this Defender of the West at 1700 feet, in Stokes Bay, Portsmouth. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJfac4d6fbFjj8U

[@refaettinyesilyurt5726]

Roaming in Desolate Places Just Display Flying Duck Hunter

[@chientatuong7921]

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[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

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[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

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[@mike.47]

I’m really looking forward to seeing what the “Trump Class” carrier looks like. Insert joke here………….

[@jefferee2002]

There won't be

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

This sorta thing is why we shouldn't have started naming Carriers after politicians. It was bound to get to a controversial point. We should have kept naming them after famous battles.

[@sashadala346]

How many schools could be build for the price of this one death ship?

[@siendbhcixisj]

Imagine how much health care could have been delivered to US veterans with the cost of yet another monstrosity of a war machine.

[@frank-ko6de]

Veterans are still very much taken care off despite that monstrosity pointed at your dirty Russian necks. Imagine how more competent your military could be if you weren't so drunk and corrupt. What kind of army drinks on the job, even during civilian times?😶😶😶😇

[@siendbhcixisj]

@@frank-ko6de Russian necks? What are you talking about. You sound a very angry person. I hope you get the help you need one day. Much love from Scotland. Xxx

[@frank-ko6de]

@@siendbhcixisj Help yourself and clear your eyes so you're not so deluded.😶😶😶😶😶🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@CrayonEater255]

Not a lot

[@Stephen2K4]

After watching 270 days of the invasion of Ukraine....... Why is the US so scared of Russia? Ive been watching a clown show vs a I don't even know. Just seeing a hand holding the back of launch and recovery crew member landing a helicoptor at 9:00 while a jet lands aboard the carrier..... tells me all I need to know.

[@darrenrichings4091]

You lucky buggers,as an ABH flight deck director,that thing is a dream

[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

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[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

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[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

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[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

Compro a fragata toda por 800bilhoes manda para a base do rio de janeiro Niterói brasil marinha

[@somerandomguy1475]

lets hope hypersonic missile dont come near it :(

[@ThatCarGuy]

Hypersonic missiles can't maneuver and wont be used on a moving target.

[@somerandomguy1475]

@@ThatCarGuy you have the def wrong hypersonic missile are missile able to dodge AA and reach speed of Mach 5 ballistic missile are missle on a set course and are unmenuverable

[@ThatCarGuy]

@@somerandomguy1475 Hypersonic missiles wont be used on ships do to their lack of maneuverability, Russia patent below stating they can't maneuver, need to shut their engines off, can lose stability and even self destruct coming back down to it's target. But first lets do some math. Zircons top speed is mach 9 right? Converting to km/s that is about 3km/s. Say you wanted to move a single degree for 5 seconds at 3km/s you would be off course 15km... Almost as much as the Chinese test missed by. "Russian patent number 2579409 relates to the field of rocket technology, and more specifically to hypersonic cruise missiles equipped with a hypersonic ramjet engine. The invention describes a method of application and device hypersonic cruise missile, allowing to solve the problem of performing a combat mission to destroy ground and surface targets of such a missile. The described invention is designed to maximize the combat potential of the combat module with the scramjet. The design mode for the scramjet are high-altitude cruise conditions while maintaining the estimated cruise speed, and the need to reduce the altitude and flight speed creates difficult technical problems due to the fact that: an engine designed to perform a hypersonic mid-flight at high altitude is not able to continue to work at low-altitude trajectory sections associated with a decrease in the flight number M, hence, the rocket must approach the ground or surface target with an inactive engine; characteristics of sustainability and controllability of the combat module with inactive scramjet significantly deteriorate, loss of stability becomes possible; there is also a danger of destruction of the scramjet design due to the increase in pressure in the flow part of the engine while reducing the Combat module from the march height before hitting the target."

[@somerandomguy1475]

@@ThatCarGuy even if hypersonic missile can’t menuver computer can always predict movement path with CV being huge plus human judgement and error the CV most likely will not be able to react in time even tho it will most likely be a suicidal mission for pilots the result out weights the lost

[@ThatCarGuy]

@@somerandomguy1475 the only way a hypersonic missile would be able to hit it, is if it not moving. Otherwise let's do more math. Say a ship firing a zircon missile is 600km away. The zircon top speed is mach 9, which converts into roughly 3km/s as stated above. 600km divided by 3km/s is 3 minutes and 33 seconds. That's without taking into account the time it takes to reach max speed, which I can't do the math for since air density, weather, etc are different depending where they are. So you are looking at over 5 minutes to respond, which is more then enough time to either move, or fire off SM-6 missiles to defend. Nothing is perfect. Everything has pros and cons. To beat a CSG you need a barage of sea skimming cruise missiles which fly under the radar horizon giving radars minimal time to react. This is why all nations still use subsonic cruise missiles, each type has their pros and cons and is good for a different scenario. Hypersonic missiles are good for hitting stationary targets from a close range. That then give the defender almost no time to react.

[@stabilis8895]

Horn piper: " Now that's a proper carrier, not like the useless British ones " Generic....

[@jimbeam4111]

Never to be used for what it was built for as it would be sunk in the modern battlefield theater.

[@brettwhittlesey6862]

Please abandon the rail gun experiments and development it is not worth it!!!!

[@jefferee2002]

Do you really think what you've heard about rail gun technology is accurate?

[@AA-xo9uw]

Navy canceled railgun development in June/July of 2021.

[@jefferee2002]

@@AA-xo9uw no they didn't. Nor should they. Sure read the official briefs and go from that.

[@brettwhittlesey6862]

@@jefferee2002 doesn't a rail gun either work or not? I mean what could be so suspenseful? But I have been wrong before...

[@jefferee2002]

@@brettwhittlesey6862 rail guns have been demonstrated to work. I have no proof there is one on board the Gerald Ford, but they have more than enough electric power from her nuclear reactors. And not knowing is kind of the point with weaponry.

[@michaelmitchell6629]

Be safe u all pray psalms 27 over you all

[@markkierznowski6121]

Sitting duck.

[@williamwoolcock]

When does Trump get his aircraft carrier?

[@randystuddard7174]

Never!

[@moviestudioland]

And how to defend this ship against 10 Iran Drones shooting missiles at it all at once? 10 or 20 of those Iran Drones Russia is using in Ukraine can swarm this ship and endanger it.

[@tokko6884]

Lol no. A carrier is never alone. They travel in a battle fleet. The aegis radar on the destroyers would see the drones a couple hundred miles out and launch SM2s that would destroy the drones well before they were in range to drop their own payload.

[@ThatCarGuy]

Each AB class destroyer has 32 cells for ESSMs alone, which are quad packed, meaning 1 single destroyer carries 128 ESSMs among it's other missiles. They have also tested nuclear bombs on a aircraft carriers and it didn't sink. "After the war, Independence became part of a fleet used to measure the effects of atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific on July 1, 1946. It sat just 560 yards from ground zero in the first test, a 23-kiloton air blast of a fission bomb similar to the one used over Nagasaki, Japan, a year earlier, according to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Twenty-four days later, Independence was 1,390 yards from the center of a second atomic blast -- also a 23-kiloton device but an underwater detonation. The ship was later brought back to California for nuclear decontamination before being sunk during the weapons training in 1951."

[@fenwaypark1725]

Thank you Donold Trump for the three more under construction and 2024 MAGA 🇺🇸🖖

[@jefferee2002]

Oh are you talking about the FORMER president who made fun of the Gerald R. Ford? Grow up.

[@jefferee2002]

@@michaelfourie345 oh, it was when woman were stuck in the house and African Americans were still being lynched.

[@jamesteh829]

Such aircraft carrier will be a good target for 🇨🇳 hypersonic missile

[@BlueSteel331]

That carrier has been badly designed, the 'island' should've been built to completely hang over the side and so clearing the entire deck area for aircraft, any imbalance would be corrected by ballast deep in the hull = all ship designers can thank me later !

[@donaldpate1863]

Crash and burn flyboys!

[@PeterG1975]

Is it the largest? The USS Theodore Roosevelt is said to be 104,600 long tons, notable greater than the estimated 100,000 tons of the Gerald R Ford.

[@ThatCarGuy]

Ford class is longer and has a bigger beam. Older systems weighed more increasing weight.

[@gbafongbafon]

Females lower a militarys capabilities

[@CrayonEater255]

🤓

[@donaldpate1863]

Yeah it would have been a better video if if showed them getting smashed by a burning jet!

[@ottavva]

may she have a Titanic-style maiden voyage

[@sergiodesouzajunior3962]

Compro a fragata toda por 900 trilhões manda para a marinha do Brasil do Amazonas