The US Navy has been carrying out ‘Full Ship Shock Trials’ in the Atlantic Ocean. The USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier completed a set of scheduled trials off the East Coast on Friday. The 40,000lb ...

The US Navy set off explosives near its new supercarrier to simulate actual combat and see how it holds up against shock and vibrations. USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the first of a new class of ...

Videos of the blast set off near USS Gerald R. Ford show what the Navy put its new carrier through.

"We did break things, but we will fix them," Capt. Paul Lanzilotta, the USS Gerald R. Ford's commanding officer, said.

UPDATE: Navy EOD Tech Kenton Stacy is breathing on his own, as of Tuesday afternoon, according to his teammate Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott. In a post on the #StacyStrong Facebook page, he wrote ...

On Friday, June 18, a powerful bomb was set off near the USS Gerald R. Ford by the US Navy off the coast of Florida. The bomb was so powerful it triggered a magnitude 3.9 quake, with the US detonating ...

One person familiar with the planning of the event told the Associated Press White House officials insisted to Navy planners that Trump “needed to see explosions" instead of just a “big splash” during ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford completed its first explosive event of full-ship shock trials Friday. The Navy detonated explosives near the carrier to see how it holds up against shock and vibrations. The ...