USS GERALD R. FORD 
CVN 78
  
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          Keel Laid: November 14, 2009
          Christened: November 9, 2013
          Commissioned: July 22, 2017

          Builder: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News, Va.
          Propulsion system: two A1B nuclear reactors, four shafts  
          Lengths, overall: 1.092 feet (332.85 meters)
          Flight Deck Width: 252 feet (76.8 meters)
          Beam: 134 feet (40.84 meters)
          Draft: 39 feet (7.8 meters)
          Displacement: approx. 100,000 tons full load
          Speed: 30+ knots
          Aircraft: 90 fixed wing and helicopters, 4 EMALS Electromagnetic 
          Catapults
          Crew: Officers: 508 Enlisted: 3789
          Armament:
           - four MK-38 Mod 2 25mm Machine Gun Systems (MGS)
           - two Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) launchers          
           - two MK-29 ESSM launchers
           - three MK-15 20mm Phalanx CIWS
          Homeport: Norfolk, VA.