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A clogged toilet on a $13-billion aircraft carrier makes for easy propaganda, but it doesn’t ground the air wing, sideline the strike group, or signal the fall of American sea power — it just means sailors are fixing pipes while the ship stays on mission.
Parked off Venezuela like a steel cathedral, the Ford isn’t here to chase panga boats — it’s a billion-dollar warning flare meant to make someone, somewhere, think very hard about what happens next.
Intel contradicts Trump on Iran strike and Iran executes spies as ceasefire with Israel faces new pressure. Morning brief for June 25, 2025.
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In this premier SOFREP News Video, the USS Gerald R Ford stands as a leviathan of modern naval might, deftly navigating through a sea bristling with new-age missile threats and geopolitical tensions.
As the USS Gerald R Ford cuts through the Eastern Mediterranean, it symbolizes a world in flux, navigating the choppy waters of escalating naval threats and the relentless march of technology in an age where global power dynamics are constantly shifting.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, an embodiment of naval superiority and the newest addition to the Navy’s carriers, is concluding its inaugural combat mission, an extensive eight-month deployment initiated on May 2.
A view from the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship USNS Medgar Evers (T-AKE-13), while Normandy as part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group
“It is really a stepping-stone kind of approach from my perspective. It is a chance for us to really find areas where we can improve,” the captain said.
Sometimes too much of a good thing can create problems as development of the USS Gerald R. Ford shows.
Even if a hit isn’t direct the energy delivered can be catastrophic. So, the Navy is putting the USS Gerald R. Ford to the test.
Earlier this week, China’s People’s Liberation Army-Navy received its second aircraft carrier — and the first that China built on its own. The announcement that China now has two operational aircraft carriers was seen by some as a dramatic uptick in China’s maritime capabilities. But as we’ve discussed on SOFREP before, the nation’s quickly growing […]
