An aircraft carrier is a warship designed to carry, launch, recover and support aircraft at sea, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities that allow it to serve as a mobile, seago
Three steam catapult equipped aircraft carriers of various types—USS John C. Stennis, Charles de Gaulle (French Navy), and USS John F. Kennedy—along with the helicopter carrier HMS Ocean and escort vessels, 2002
Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian is the first aircraft carrier in the world to launch a fifth-generation fighter using the electromagnetic catapult system
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (rear) and US Navy carrier USS Ronald Reagan conducting joint operations in the Persian Gulf, each with the CATOBAR configuration
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), a United States Navy fleet carrier, also often referred to as a supercarrier, crossing the Atlantic in 2019
USS Gerald R. Ford is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the lead ship of her class. The ship is named after the 38th president of the United States, Gerald Ford, whose World War II nav
Aircraft carrier
…reactors providing steam to four steam turbines. Gerald R. Ford class, one 100,000-tonne, 337-meter-long (1,106 ft) fleet carrier. The lead of the class Gerald R. Ford came into service in 2017, with another nine planned to replace the aging Nimitz-class ships. Nine amphibious assault ships carrying vehicles, Marine…
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) after departing Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia in October 2022
Ford in his U.S. Navy uniform, c. 1945
Gerald R. Ford undergoing the third and final blast of the shock trials, 8 August 2021
Gerald R. Ford returning to Naval Station Norfolk after completing her inaugural deployment to the Atlantic Ocean, 26 November 2022