Meet The USS John F Kennedy (CVN 79), Second Gerald R Ford Class Aircraft Carrier, US Navy

Meet The USS John F Kennedy (CVN 79), Second Gerald R Ford Class Aircraft Carrier, US Navy

USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy. The ship was launched on 29 October 2019, and christened on 7 December 2019.

(General characteristics)

Class and type
Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier

Displacement
About 100,000 long tons (100,000 tonnes) (full load)

Length
1,106 ft (337 m)

Beam
134 ft (41 m) (waterline)
256 ft (78 m) (flight deck)

Draft
39 ft (12 m)

Installed power
Two A1B nuclear reactors

Propulsion
Four shafts

Speed
In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)

Range
Unlimited distance; 20–25 years

Complement
4,660

Sensors and
processing systems
AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) X band active electronically scanned array
AN/SPY-6 Volume Search Radar (VSR) S band active electronically scanned array

Armament
Anti-aircraft missiles:
2 × RIM-162 ESSM launchers
2 × RIM-116 RAM launchers

Guns:
3 × Phalanx CIWS
4 × M2 .50 Cal. (12.7 mm) machine guns

Aircraft carried
More than 80, can hold up to 90 combat aircraft

Aviation facilities
1,092 ft × 256 ft (333 m × 78 m) flight deck

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