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Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)

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Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)

The most expensive and advanced warship ever built/Ships & Boats

The USS Gerald R. Ford cost approximately $13 billion and is the most expensive warship ever constructed. It is a floating city with a crew of over 4,500 people, two nuclear reactors, and an electromagnetic aircraft launch system that replaced the old steam catapults. The flight deck is so large you could fit three football fields on it, and the ship is designed to operate for 50 years without refueling its reactors.

Measurements

Overall length337 m
22,467Blueberry diameters
67.4Bamboo pole lengths
147Porta-potty heights
Full load displacement100 million kg
18.2 millionthsTeaspoons of neutron star
190 millionOlympic gold medals
847,458Dwayne The Rock Johnson weights

About 100,000 tonnes

Top speed15.4 m/s
4.4 tenthsCommuter trains
10.3River currents

30+ knots

Flight deck area18,000 m²
25,000Bath towels
10.5 billionthsAlaskas
3.3 hundredthsGolf courses
Reactor power output700 million W
212Locomotives
350,000Sprinting humans
938,338Horses

Two A1B nuclear reactors

Beam (width at waterline)41 m
410 millionViruses
2.3 billionthsLight-minutes
Height (keel to mast)76 m
854Crayons
89.4Cricket bats
8.3 tenthsFootball field lengths
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