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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="Nocturno Culto" data-source="post: 1445196" data-attributes="member: 6896"><a href="http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2013/10/go-aboard-uss-gerald-r-ford-cvn-78-the-newest-aircraft-carrier/">Come aboard USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78), the newest aircraft carrier</a>Una mirada poco común a tres portaaviones en Newport News Shipbuilding<img src="http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/files/2013/10/G004-131022-NNewsSB-186.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> El Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) se encuentra en el dique seco en Newport News Shipbuilding, en espera de su ceremonia de bautizo el 09 de noviembre.It’s not every decade that a new aircraft carrier design comes along.  But now, for the first time since the early 1970s, the first of a new class of nuclear-powered behemoths is being revealed to the public along the shores of the James River in Virginia.The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is rising in a giant graving dock at the northwest end of the sprawling shipyard of Newport News Shipbuilding. Officially under construction since November 2009, the work to build the 1,092-fo0t-long ship has actually been going on for more than a decade.  Hiding under scaffolding, covered in anti-rust primer, the Ford has just received a new coat of paint, part of the preparations for her public debut on Nov. 9, when ship’s sponsor Susan Ford Bales, daughter of the 38th U.S. president, will <a href="http://www.thefordclass.com/">formally christen the ship</a>. Water was let into the dock to float the Ford for the first time on Oct. 11. She’s not yet officially launched — that won’t technically take place until after the christening ceremony when the ship is moved out of the dock to a fitting-out berth in the shipyard. The Ford isn’t anywhere near complete yet, either — the ship is scheduled to be delivered to the Navy in early 2016, and it will be some time after that before the ship is declared operational and ready to deploy.Defense News was given a look at the ship on Oct. 22. While the outside of the hull is freshly painted, inside the Ford is swarming with a couple thousand shipbuilders. Staging and scaffolding abound in the hangar deck and around the ship’s island superstructure, and the flight deck is covered with temporary structures.Elsewhere in the yard the Nimitz-class carrier Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is half a year into a three-and-a-half-year refueling overhaul, which will also see most of the ship torn apart and refurbished. At the opposite end of the yard, the Enterprise (CVN 65), inactivated last December, is undergoing dismantlement. Built at Newport News and delivered in October 1961, the ship’s reactors are being defueled and and much equipment is being removed.Newport News Shipbuilding, part of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the only US shipyard capable of building a full-sized, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.We photographed each of the three carriers during our visit. Unless otherwise noted, all photos are by Christopher P. Cavas.</blockquote>

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