The U.S. Navy provides this synopsis with the release of this video:
The largest warship in the world, and the US Navy’s newest and most technologically advanced aircraft carrier, is in European waters for its first deployment.
The USS Gerald R. Ford recently concluded Exercise Silent Wolverine, a series of maritime drills off the coast of Portugal involving 11 ships from six other NATO Allies. During the exercise, the aircraft carrier launched and recovered strike fighters, surveillance aircraft, electronic warfare aircraft and helicopters while coordinating with ships from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain. Working together in a multinational carrier strike group, Silent Wolverine gave NATO Allies a chance to see the USS Gerald R. Ford in action and familiarise themselves with its systems.
The USS Gerald R. Ford made its first foreign port call in Halifax, Canada. Following Silent Wolverine, it visited Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, giving UK and other NATO officials a chance to see the ship in person.
The first ship in a new class of super carriers, the USS Gerald R. Ford uses electromagnetic catapults to launch jets, breaking with the steam-powered system used by carriers for decades. This new system requires fewer sailors to operate, and its power levels can be calibrated for specific aircraft, leading to less wear and tear and lower long-term maintenance costs.
Footage includes shots of the carrier strike group under sail; the USS Gerald R. Ford launching and recovering aircraft; a replenishment-at-sea operation and shots of maintainers fixing jets in the hangar bay, as well as interviews with USS Gerald R. Ford Captain Paul Lanzilotta, and Royal Canadian Navy Rear Admiral David Patchell, Vice Commander of US Second Fleet.
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In autos Bugatti and ferrari may bring the highest prices. But in any military from any country there is no top just higher you can't put a price on survival
Love the massive Ukraine flag flying next to the US flag on the biggest and baddest ship ever made. Putin must be so pissed off watching this. Glorious!
Hypersonic ballistic missiles DF-21D and DF-26B will destroy this aircraft carrier and the Navy knows this! As a fighter pilot, we get to see different types of weapons that other countries use and what they can do to ground targets and ships! The Navy keeps saying that their aircraft carriers are invincible and that's a total lie and I despise them for that, but they use that misinformation as a recruiting tool so sailors will join and feel completely safe! Nothing on this planet is invincible!
Pathetic waste of taxpayers money.
I saw this monster in the UK recently. Ford doesn’t dock at port… the port docks at Ford, lol.
Right On Go Army!
Great video!!! 👌
Very cool
Wish fat Lizzie could launch f18 super hornet fighters,,,,,
Damn, pay these mechanics an electric screwdriver! For God Sake
The American military industrial complex. There is always a conflict, always a war, always an excuse to spend hundreds of billions of dollars.
Affixed est.
Trial over.hint term
Coronation exp.of rank Colonel
Very proud of our boys and girls! We’re simply the best!
More America Ukraine propaganda…flag on the carrier…
that NATO is a coward, look at Ukraine how they are fighting and yet NATO is in Poland just watching hahahahaha 🤣 scared
The only language that Putin and his puppets can understand is NATO Forces surrounding his houses.
Stop the showoff. Lets go to war and get it over with!
My brother and husband were in the Navy as well as several cousins and two Uncles. They would really have enjoyed seeing this video. Thank you and Bless our Military Men and Women.
Seeing the big Ukraine flag on the Ford is awesome!
My dad was a B-17 pilot in WW II and was shot down over Germany on July 26, 1943 and was a POW for the rest of the war. After the war, he flew B-47's and B-52's during the Cold War while I was growing up. I wanted to be a military pilot of any kind but my eyes were bad and I wasn't that good at math and I had problems with my spine. So there was no hope of becoming a miliary pilot. So I became a private pilot with instrument and commercial ratings, I took advanced aerobatic lessons, I was a glider pilot, and I flew many different types of aircraft.
My dad died on active duty at age 51 and he never got to see me become a private pilot. I hope that he looked down on me from heaven and realized that I did it all in honor for him and my mother because they were the best parents any kid could ever hope to have. My God how I miss them. I'm 76 now and I've had a wild ride in life in a very good way and even the not so good days were lessons to be learned.
that german fregate looks badass