| Class overview | ||
| Name: | Gerald R. Ford–class aircraft carrier | |
| Builders: | Newport News Shipbuilding | |
| Operators: | United States Navy | |
| Preceded by: | Nimitz class | |
| Cost: | Program cost: US$37.30 billion (FY2018)[1] | |
| Unit cost: US$12.998 billion (FY2018)[1] | ||
| In service: | 2017–present | |
| Building: | 2 | |
| Ordered: | 2[1] | |
| Planned: | 10[2][3] | |
| Completed: | 2 | |
| Active: | 1 | |
| General characteristics | ||
| Type: | Aircraft carrier | |
| Displacement: | About 100,000 long tons (100,000 tonnes) (full load)[4] | |
| Length: | 1,106 ft (337 m) | |
| Beam: | 256 ft (78 m) (flight deck) | |
| 134 ft (41 m) (waterline) | ||
| Height: | 250 feet (76 m)[citation needed] | |
| Draft: | 39 ft (12 m)[5] | |
| Decks: | 25 | |
| Installed power: | Two A1B nuclear reactors | |
| Propulsion: | Four shafts | |
| Speed: | In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) | |
| Range: | Unlimited | |
| Endurance: | 50-year service life | |
| Complement: | 508 officers | |
| 3,789 enlisted[5] | ||
| Crew: | About 2,600[6] | |
| Sensors and | AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) X band active electronically scanned array | |
| processing systems: | AN/SPY-4 Volume Search Radar (VSR) S band active electronically scanned array (CVN-78) | |
| AN/SPY-6 Volume Search Radar (VSR) S band active electronically scanned array (CVN-79 and up) | ||
| Armament: | Surface-to-air missiles: | |
| 2 × RIM-162 ESSM launchers | ||
| 2 × RIM-116 RAM | ||
| Guns: | ||
| 3 × Phalanx CIWS | ||
| 4 × M2 .50 Cal. (12.7 mm) machine guns | ||
| Aircraft carried: | 75+[7] | |
| Aviation facilities: | 1,092 ft × 256 ft (333 m × 78 m) flight deck | |
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