| 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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