The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy as its dry dock area is flooded on October 29. US Navy/MCS3 Class Adam Ferrero
Business Insider: Navy may not buy any more Ford-class supercarriers, acting Navy secretary says
* The Navy may cap the number of Ford-class aircraft carriers at four and move on to something else, the acting Navy secretary recently said.
* "I don't know if we're going to buy any more of that type," acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly told Defense & Aerospace Report, adding that the Navy is "certainly thinking about possible other classes."
* According to Breaking Defense, the Navy is putting together a task force to figure out what the future carrier fleet should look like.
The US Navy may not buy any more Ford-class aircraft carriers, the acting Navy secretary said recently, revealing that the service is already thinking about what comes next.
"I don't know if we're going to buy any more of that type," acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly told Defense & Aerospace Report's Christopher Cavas, adding that the Navy is "certainly thinking about possible other classes."
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the first of the new class of flattops, is going through postdelivery tests and trials. The USS John F. Kennedy is 70% complete. Construction has started on the USS Enterprise, and material is reportedly being procured for the USS Doris Miller.
The last vessel is expected to be delivered in 2032.
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WNU Editor: The US Navy will continue to order aircraft carriers. But I suspect that they will not be as large as the Ford-class.
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