The decommissioning of CVN-65 was not the end of USS Enterprise. CVN-80, the third Ford-class carrier, will bear the name Enterprise and carry on the legacy of these ships in the Navy. Naming this ...
Thanks to "Star Trek," the most well-known ship in the U.S. Navy is probably the USS Enterprise. There's a reason for that, and while the "Star Trek" franchise has been incredibly successful at ...
Bush. They are the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), future USS Enterprise (CVN 80), and future USS Doris Miller (CVN 81). Other recent presidents have naval vessels named after them.
Ford class (CVN 78) was ordered in 2008 and is slated to be delivered in 2016 as the force structure replacement for USS ENTERPRISE (EX-CVN 65) which inactivated in 2012.
The former USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) aircraft carrier departed the Navy's Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on Jan. 16 under tow to its final destination: International Shipbreaking ...