Impressive image shows America's newest aircraft carrier about to float

The first time you see an American nuclear super-carrier in person, you can't believe the size. It's simply astonishing. It must be even more impressive if you see it like this, fully naked in a dry dock about to be flooded. Expand it to see it at full resolution.

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It happened on October 11, 2013 at Newport News Shipbuilding's Dry Dock 12, where they floated the Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) for the first time.

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She's the first of a new class of carriers that will eventually fully replace the current Nimitz-class fleet.

Photos by the US Navy

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