Meet the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79): This New Aircraft Carrier Might Be the Navy's Best Ever 

The Grey Ghost will return.

We sure screwed up not saving the last "Big E"😢.

Your right. We have all these Nimitz group that are in working condition there scrapping instead of keeping them running at the face of the wars coming. Our Congress's incompetentacy is relentless. How stupid could the be???

If they don't revert to the prior plan and name her the Obama. Also would like to see other legacy names restored like Kittyhawk, Wasp and Hornet. Would love to see a Hornet's squadron of superhornets. "Hornet Actual to all Hornets return to home."

​@user-gw9jy6ox1z to update it from oil burning to nuclear you would have had to tear it down to almost a bare hull to replace everything. It was just a more feasible deal to build a completely new, better and easier updated carrier. These new cvn models can basically power a large part of a state if needed. Something the Nimitz class and prior classes just couldn't do.

Agree with what you said but it also helped that President Trump renegotiated the F-35 price. I wish more of our politicians would hold our defense contractors accountable and help drive down the cost. Just like the Marines growler and LCS, people need to be held accountable and these prices would drop. They need to be held accountable when they don't meet deadlines too. The Constellation class ship has already been pushed back a year on the first ship.

We in the Navy call all ships "BOATS"

And yet the uss Iowa class still drops more TNT then any aircraft carrier

Nice looking BOAT

Perhaps, but nowhere near as far and with nowhere near the accuracy as attack aircraft or drones with precision-guided munitions. The Iowas still have their uses in modern war, most notably shore bombardment in support of amphibious landings, for which they can wield more firepower at the ranges required for less cost than any other kind of ship. They could also be converted for many other purposes. One of them would be a the installation of a large number of vertical launch missile cells, giving them a long-range strike capability or enabling them to take up once again the function they spent most of their time on during World War Two, serving as enormous antiaircraft (and now antimissile) escorts for the carriers. Keeping them around a while longer is still a good idea.

What good is classified if you can take and hide Ts/SCIF documents and claim they are your property.

You’re probably right. Who says “PT one hundred nine”?

The way it said "project power" was a giveaway.

Almost all of them are

@@mrknotthall Either AI or Idiots. We now hv a lot of both. "PT One Hundred Nine." Yeah, how many wldn't think twice when hearing that? Sad.

It's everywhere now.

I did my Med cruise on USS Kennedy CV-67 back in the mid 90's. Lots of memories...

I was on the CV67 from 93-97. Still have my '93 "25 years of Service" Cruise Book. Was a BM3 in Deck Department. Great memories.

@@jessikat6692 We probably ran into each other dude. I remember that visit to Ireland in 1996, that was pretty rocking! I was assigned to VF-41.

Typhoon Cobra in late 1944

He had some one looking over his shoulder

Typhoon Cobra 16 thru 18 December 1944 aka Halsey's Typhoon

And badly. I quit halfway through, couldn't take any more.

​@@johnjones5354there are worse videos out there. This one is actually pretty good in my opinion.

E-mals not E-mails

Project as in project force is pronounced differently than project as in a project due by Monday. Definitely AI voice 😣

What do* 120 billion get you?

@@einundsiebenziger5488 Freedom and the greatest country in the world! Don't like it move on!

It gets the top dogs in the program really nice house and cars.

@@byronlemay2166 Yep! and if you were that smart you would have it also! But here you are!!! Lol!!!

You don't get it...we're all being screwed.@@RushOutdoors

It'd seem that way, but retrofitting older vessels with the latest navigational, weapons or targeting systems is extremely expensive and in some cases right down impossible. In addition, operating any diesel powered vessel is a losing proposition and limiting to the Navy. The Navy tried this route with the battleships back in the 90's during the gulf war by retrofitting USS Wisconsin with missiles and realized how expensive that became.

@@IamGroot786the battle wagons when brought back to active service in late 80’s & early 90’s cost a fortune in diesel per day when they were under way. I had a friend who was an engineer on the first crew of the New Jersey when she was re commissioned. They cost a fortune to operate when underway but boy oh boy were they ever a sight to behold at sea especially when those 16” cannons were being fired!

@@robinwhitlatch4497 Exactly.

????

Well, JFK made the US engange in Vietnam which ultimately turned into a totally unnecessary war against a country and its people that would never have posed any threat to the USA.

Whoever wrote the script, probably got confused with the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. which was named for the President's older brother. he was a US Naval Aviator who was killed in WW2. I think that it is a museum ship. I don't remember where.

What I want to know is can this feed poor people?

Maybe. But ive done 3 contracts at PSNS, Bremerton shipyard. (Nimitz, Stennis, Maine. Contractors & ships force all say boat.

Also, to be geeky or technical, boats leain into their turn, whereas ships lean out away from their turn. Ships can self-deploy across oceans, whereas boats normally can, especially not thousands of miles. Generally, ships can carry boats and ships (recall the massive transport ship that carried ships that had smaller ships stacked crosswise), but boats cannot carry ships. Most ships will be of the displacement type, as in when at rest or moving, push a LOT of water aside, whereas boats when at speed have most of thei hull above the watet at sea level. A ship plowing through water when at speed - as opposed to boats, which usually will plane or ride above the water up to maybe the first third to 2/3 of the waterline length -will appear to be planing, but they probably are not fully laden/loaded. In that case, they're likely fiercely climbing their own wave, not getting to the point of appearing to launch themselves airborne. Generally, boat, when used regarding/describing submarines, will be used by submariners. In my day in the 80s Navy, woe be unto any sailor who referred to the ship as a boat and got overheard. (In my case, I started reading sbout the Navy feom my 4th grade year, but began reading C. B. Colby books by ~3rd grade, IIRC.) Generally, civilians who have next to no meaningful nexus to maritime world vessels or to military vessels will misuse or interchange boat and ship. It wouldn't be hard for teachers to instill the difference in high schoolers any more than it would be hard for a biology teacher or a chemistry teacher to insist kids correctly name the cells, blastona, nuclei, electron valences, and so on. But... Didn't mean to appear to be one-upping you. Cheers!

Uh - Boats are Submarines, Ships that stay the surface are Ships. 😜

ships have sails boats do not ,,, has nothing to do with how long it is lol

As a Navy veteran and former submariner we call all our subs boats...

right... damn AI basterds

Its an auto generated narration. They're getting undetectable

It's a bot and a lazy editor who doesn't even proof the audio. All they have to do is write it out like you did.

@@rcpmac That doesn't cover repeatedly mispronouncing "project," which is pronounced differently depending on context. What is wrong with using a true human voice?

See, the narrator (artificial or not) would have dodged scrutiny if it had been that McHale's Navy and the fictional PT-73 were the comparison, hehehe. I, too, heard "PT-One-Hundred-and-Nine" and groaned. I actually bailed out. But, minutes later, I returned to see what else my make me desperately need a drink, or feel glad I gave the AI a second chance. (Still, I blame Google and RU-vid and whatever AI they're using. If the underlying AI were substituted in for humans making enemy contact reports, any given military may as well commit seppuku or with vigor and enthusiasm jump off a cliff. The captions are utterly, intractabl-y abominable. AI-supplied captions simply and absolutely MUST be domain aware. The captions grab all the wrong forms, truncate, butcher, and do stupid things like: multi-roll (vs the correct multi-role) ship. Yeh, if the ship's in a severe NorthLant winter storm it'll roll multiple times and whip about destructively if not brought under control... And uppercasing a target as "Target", as in the brand, the store. Even if Google and RU-vid need or want money, they have a **duty** to not memorialize or consign to future generations myriad and sundry wholly-avoidable trash captions. Failing to embrace that means no AI should be taken seriously if from a company that prioritizes profit over accuracy and legacy. Why? Well, they tout approaching AGI. Even a grade schooler can anticipate and use the correct and expected acronym or term once sufficiently educated or regularly exposed to given words. These billionaires and billion dollar valuation companies cash in on people too lazy to exercise their brains and get (them) hooked on the virtual heroin of the FOMO ticking clock. An AGI supplying captions absolutely must know its conversation context, what imagery is in the video, and lightning-fast ONLY grab the contemporaneously valid anecdotal licensed or public domain images or proper, acceptable contextual phrases and terms. (It's why courts ruthlessly HAMMER lazy lawyers who blindly trust AI.) It is so cringe worthy when in a vid about, say, a PLAN carrier under construction the AI content generator grabs the Ford Class construction imagery. And, Google is/was/is a contractor to various militaries of the world. I hope they're getting their money's worth and don't have to keep correcting the AI.) My perspective is from watching WW2 movies in the '70s, and then as a Radioman from '86-'88, reading the JANAP/NATO/ACP and numerous other pubs and being a professional user of the voice comms and teletypes aboard the John A. Moore (FFG-19), as well as having stood helm watches part of '85 and '86 in my 15 months aboard the "Flexible" Flint (AE-32) as a non-rate. It is impressive and spine tingling how much pain the militaries endure to ensure proper enunciation, articulation, diction, and more go into eliminating or reducing written and spoken long and abbreviated communications error. What is cringe and offensive is when Hollyweird and others let escape the editing bay or post production "Over and Out." That is bonehead incorrectly-used communications phraseology. "Over" means "Your turn to speak", and "Out" means the speaker is done and is terminating its side of the link or circuit. "Out" is the same as hanging up on somebody without at all listening to hear a plea to hang on a sec. So, to say "Over and out* is not only incorrect, as it means "I've said my bit, am hanging up, but, yeh, you go ahead and speak - I'm gone...", it's something that is monitored for correctness and means the (clear or encrypted) circuit monitor or Net guard station will report the ship for incorrect radio usage. Yeah, that's a real thing. Captains and CIC and Radio personnel get written up and lose points. And, that actually hurts. It isn't casual. Sadly, Hollyweird is insular and often refuses to abide by real military advisors the studios pay for for authenticity. Sometimes, big-headed actors do what they want, or directors don't care, and let it out. And, sometimes it's sloppy advisors.) It's also likely why global business and air traffic control use English when outside of one's own country if English is not the local language.

Can you believe he said “PT one hundred nine”? LOL, clueless.

just you 😂

I think the Kennedy is on time. And now the hull is being put down for the New USS Enterprise. So the Carrier program unlike some of the other Naval Projects are on time.

It’s not.

CVN-79

That draft dodger

You notice that too? They sound very Russian at that

How? Epst was 10 when Kennedy died.

That's CVN-81. They're building parts for that now.

Under construction.

Not really.

They're trying to arrange for scrapping. Lot of process to how to arrange for the secure removal of the reactors, and then to dismantle the rest of the ship.

Being scrapped.

What remains of it is currently moored next to the under-construction JFK in Newport News. If it remains there my guess that it'll be a huge photo opportunity for when the next Enterprise is ready to be moved there in place of the JFK, many years from now. There doesn't seem to be a hurry to do anything with it, but I haven't really been paying attention to any news on that.

@Re.Configured that sounds bout right considering everything that's going on hopefuly the next enterprise will be ready at some time in the near future and fingers crossed somebody does take advantage and get few photos while they can do ever since they announced they be making a newer enterprise everything went quiet bout it.

@@stewartlound8673 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TF1f1FAyY9M.htmlsi=miTtz3slWjxGnRVl

Carrier groups won't let anything near these ships. Hypersonic has been around for a long time and clearly isn't anything we worry about.

@@gpawoodyshoneyhole The HELIOS system. High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance. Hypersonic missiles are extremely slow compared to the speed of light. The Ford class carriers will be outfitted with them. Checkmate.

When Ukraine was given Patriot anti missile batteries, they began shooting down hypersonics left and right. In fact they shot down 6 missiles in one day with the Patriot. I'm sure these newer carriers have even more advanced anti missile systems aboard.

​@@deanladue5367 carriers rarely carry a lot of AA weapons. That is the job for the rest of the fleet.

The Patriot batteries in Ukraine have been shooting down hypersonic missiles without issue. Navy boats have anti-air systems such as the Patriot but on steroids.

because that means you would also need to build more support ships, buy more planes, train more crews etc. Even the US budget isn't unlimited

Huh?

I wonder if the audio is AI.