Alexis Guilleux 08h14, October 05, 2022

The United States inaugurated its new nuclear aircraft carrier on Tuesday: the USS Gerald Ford.

335 meters long and weighing up to 100,000 tons on the scale, this new behemoth of the seas embeds new technologies and advanced weapons.

Objective: to show the advance of the American army on its competitors. 

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The United States is launching its new nuclear aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford this week, a name borrowed from the country's 38th president.

Objective for the Americans: to prove the superiority of the US Navy over its rivals.

With a bill amounting to 13 billion dollars, this new aircraft carrier has the right to take with it some good technology compared to its little brothers, from the Nimitz class. 

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Next Generation Weapons

The USS Gerald Ford carries electromagnetic catapults that propel planes at a faster rate.

This will increase the number of takeoffs by 25% on board.

State-of-the-art technologies will be present, including giant elevators to move ammunition on board.

This nuclear aircraft carrier produces three times more electricity than its predecessors, which allows it to carry new generation, energy-hungry weapons, such as AEDs, these directed energy weapons or even laser or electromagnetic weapons.

Devices which do not use projectiles and which will globally reinforce the combat power of this mastodon 335 meters long and which can weigh up to 100,000 tons.

two years late

US Naval Forces Command praises unrivaled lethal capabilities.

So certainly, the USS Gerald Ford is deployed two years late, but it allows the United States to display their technological lead over China and Russia.

Currently, the ship is not combat ready.

He left for several weeks of exercises in the Atlantic with NATO countries.