Dave Majumdar, National Interest: America's Second Ford Class Aircraft Carrier Is Almost 50 Percent Complete
Huntington Ingalls Newport News shipbuilding has completed 50 percent of the structural work on the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), which is the second Ford-class aircraft carrier. If everything goes well, the massive 100,000-ton ship will be launched in 2020.
“We are 50 percent structurally complete, if you look in the dry dock you can make out kind of a whole bottom key area of ship, it’s looking like a ship now,” Mike Petters, president and chief executive officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) told investors.
“We will start building the skyline here before too long.”
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WNU Editor: They say that it will be launched in 2020 .... we shall see. Investors like what they see .... Profit up at Huntington Ingalls in second-quarter, CEO calls for end to sequestration (Virginia Pilot).
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