From Astri Edvardsen. The US' new – and the world's largest – aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, paid its first visit to a foreign port in Oslo on Wednesday. The USS Gerald R. Ford is nuclear-powered, 333 meters long, 76 meters high – and 78 meters wide. Aboard is a crew of 4500 people, and space for around 90 aircraft. A few to name are the Stratolaunch, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the Antonov An-225 Mriya (destroyed in the Russia-Ukraine war), the Boeing Dreamlifter, and the Airbus Beluga XL. Airbus and Boeing combined have nine of the ten largest passenger aircraft in the world.
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- Just from its Air Force fact sheet it states that it "is one of the largest aircraft in the world and the largest airlifter in the Air Force inventory." Regardless of its size, the biggest difference the C-5 Galaxy makes is in supporting global airlift operations.
Number 10 – Shokaku Class. Full Load Displacement – 32,120 Long Tons. Length – 766’ 6” (233.6m) Beam – 95’ 9” (29.2m) Draft – 29’ 4” (8.9m) Speed – 32.5 knots. Aircraft – 72. The next ship on our list is filled out by the most powerful carriers used by Japan during the Second World War as well as one of the most
The Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier is the largest aircraft carrier in the world by length. While the Nimitz class firmly held its reputation as the largest in the world for a number of years, it was outdone in 2017 when the Ford class entered service. These massive aircraft carriers are also the most expensive warships ever commissioned
The US Navy has officially welcomed the world's largest aircraft carrier into the fleet. At 10:00 am today at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, the 110,000 ton, nuclear-powered USS Gerald R. Ford 272TNyO. 426 165 321 289 495 159 39 268 223

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