The deployment will be shorter than a standard six-month deployment, the official added. The USS Gerald Ford and the carrier strike group will operate with allies and partners in both the 2nd and 6th fleet areas of responsibility in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea, a US Navy official said. It is the only forward-class carrier that will have this kind of radar, the official said. The carrier also has dual band radar, which is a more advanced radar system. The system puts less stress on the aircraft as they are launched from the carrier and will allow for less time between launches, a Navy official said. The EMALS system uses electric power to launch aircraft off the vessel instead of the previous steam catapult system. The aircraft carrier has new, advanced technology including “nearly three times the amount of electrical power,” compared to the Nimitz-class carriers and uses the electromagnetic aircraft launch system, or EMALS, according to the Navy. The Navy has begun construction on the next two Ford-class carriers, the USS Kennedy and the USS Enterprise. The ship is the first Ford-class aircraft carrier.
The carrier’s construction formally began in November 2009 and it was commissioned in 2017 by former President Donald Trump, according to a US Navy release. The USS Gerald Ford is the first new aircraft carrier designed in “over 40 years,” according to the US Navy. The US Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier left on its first deployment Tuesday from Norfolk, Virginia, designed to put the ship through its paces and exercise with allies in North America and Europe.
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