Ocean Dominance: The U.S. Navy’s Newest Ships Sail Into Service

Ocean Dominance: The U.S. Navy’s Newest Ships Sail Into Service

Key Points The U.S. Navy is constantly in the business of modernizing its force, refreshing older hulls, and pushing new technologies into service The most recent commissionings and additions include advanced Arleigh Burke–class destroyers and Virginia-class nuclear attack submarines This modernization comes with a generational shift in aircraft carriers as Nimitz-class carriers are phasing out and Ford-class carriers are slowly joining the r…

The Navy’s New Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers Can’t Hide All The Problems Anymore

Key Points and Summary – USS Enterprise (CVN-80), the third Gerald R. Ford-class carrier, has slipped to a 2030 delivery after successive delays. Causes include harder-than-expected integration of new tech from CVN-78 (EMALS, Advanced Arresting Gear, weapons elevators), pandemic-driven supply-chain shocks, and skilled-labor shortages. Some fixes emerged too late to fully incorporate on CVN-79/80/81. (July 28, 2017) An F/A-18F Super Hornet assign…