Inside the Crazy Construction of Newest US Navy $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier

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5 ай бұрын

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@lloydryan7716 5 ай бұрын

I am an 85 year old Marine. I fell in love with CV6 USS Enterprise when I read Commander Edward P. Stafford's book the BIG E, that was soon after I was discharged from the Corps. I have read every book watched every movie and video about her. I wore out three books reading them over and over. I have watched the series about her twice. I believe the only people more knowledgeable about her are the professional historians. To see her reborn for the ninth time is outstanding. I just hope I'm there when she is launched and commissioned. (Not physically I'm ancient)

@enclavex69 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service 🇬🇧👍

@Zindo.Majesty.HisMajesty 5 ай бұрын

They gonna build an enterprise Ford class. Thank you for protecting us.

@josephblanchard6248 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service and welcome home, Marine! And you are not ancient....you are just more full of wisdom.

@karloyu3484 4 ай бұрын

❤️👍💙

@HarrisonHollers 3 ай бұрын

Glad you are enjoying yourself Sir!These carriers are unbelievable! I cannot believe the detail and execution that goes into the entire military operation and all the logistics to it!

@chrismaggio7879 4 ай бұрын

I am a Plankowner on CVN72, Abraham Lincoln. The days living and working in the shipyard were as unusual as I could have imagined for a young sailor. But what an honor to watch them day after day bring our monstrous vessel to her full size and weight, piece by piece, with the smell of welding and paint and cleaning chemicals permeating our uniforms. The men and women in the shipyard were tough as nails but somewhere in the hull you always heard some laughter and singing. I won't forget that sound among all the construction... We were riding the newest greatest most expensive Navy ship ever built!...Right up until the time CVN73 was floated, then the torch was passed.

@redryder1312 4 ай бұрын

Precom CVN-70 here, engineering. I was in New Port News shipyard from mid 81 to commissioning 3/83

@jacksonlee3771 4 ай бұрын

I'm an USS Lincoln plankowner also

@user-ii7zr3bj9c 14 күн бұрын

Watch out your backyard, as Chinese is secretly establishing a new China in America, joint by other assian ethnics groups.

@multitieredinvestor183 5 ай бұрын

Loved that area when I served at Fort Monroe. I was hired to be a photographer at Williamsburg, but stupidly turned it down to return to my old job at the Atlantic City Press. Doris Miller is revered where I now live in Central Texas. Don’t matter his race, he was a hero and this will be the third major structure named for him. A VA medical center, school and the ultimate, an aircraft carrier. What an honor.

@mikewarbin5776 5 ай бұрын

Makes me proud that we are able to build such a beautiful ship!!! Go Navy!!!

@darktoadone5068 5 ай бұрын

The work these folks do is outstanding, thank you to all the shipyard workers, I used to work at the Charleston Naval Shipyard many moons ago. Unfortunately the Gov't shut it down.

@garymiller5937 5 ай бұрын

This is an incredibly fabulous video! I went on a private tour of NNSBD when I was a teenager but I wasn't allowed to see anything like this on the USS Nimitz, which they were contracting at the time. 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

@userbosco 3 ай бұрын

I'm fortunate to have grown up as a Navy brat and settled in Va Beach. My father was a Naval aviator and would treat us kids to tours and dependents cruises routinely. I've never been on a Ford class, but did do a dependents on the Enterprise. If you haven't seen an aircraft carrier up close, or had the oppty to tour one, try to do it if in the Norfolk area. Makes you appreciate where all those tax dollars are going! God bless the US Navy!

@detroitboy65 3 ай бұрын

The modern American carriers do not have keels like older ships; indeed most navy ships do not as most are built like torsion boxes. Once all assemblies are welded together the entire structure essentially becomes one piece, making it very rigid and very tough. Ships with real/traditional keels are built from the bottom up, where modular assemblage ships like CVN 80 are more akin to a lego construction. Also, that part that is cast is not the rudder but the pintle, the part that bears the rudder shaft. Rudders themselves are not cast but welded torsion boxes, just like the rest of the ship, making them very tough.

@user-wk2zb4ss1k 5 ай бұрын

USMC 64--68. Marine Detachment USS Saratoga 66--68. (I had to go to Vietnam first. 65--66). This is a great and very interesting video. And yes. We enjoyed it. Thank you very much.

@user-ii7zr3bj9c 14 күн бұрын

Watch out your backyard, as Chinese is secretly establishing a new China in America, joint by other assian ethnics groups.

@nottheroyalnavy 5 ай бұрын

Love your vids and hope you make more 😊

@user-jf9kw9th8w 4 ай бұрын

대단하고 멋지다.

@TomokosEnterprize 5 ай бұрын

The Mews has sooooo many wonderful builds. Extraordinary builds over many years indeed.

@loucuevas3867 5 ай бұрын

Wow, unbelievable.

@chrisperry9002 5 ай бұрын

I worked in a shipyard. What an experience.😊😊😊

@martykarr7058 3 ай бұрын

Been to NNSY twice, first for Ike's 1980's COH and then later for PCU George Washington.

@Hobbes4ever 5 ай бұрын

nice to see another Enterprise

@davido1953 5 ай бұрын

Interesting how some of the structure is blurred out, I imagine for security concerns.

@richardharrold4357 19 күн бұрын

A massive feat of construction expertise. And it's my navy. Semper Fi. B co 3/26

@schumy1975 5 ай бұрын

super impressive !!!

@papiyon66 4 ай бұрын

Enhorabuena señor !

@JamesFAFOCreel 5 ай бұрын

I spent 2 years of my life in this shipyard

@user-ii7zr3bj9c 14 күн бұрын

Watch out your backyard, as Chinese is secretly establishing a new China in America, joint by other assian ethnics groups.

@Arthur-ke9vz 5 ай бұрын

Amazing

@lonnybush5612 4 ай бұрын

It's about time for an enterprise.

@OFCbigduke613 5 ай бұрын

I love it when she says only the most high tech equipment is used in the construction and it shows a guy with a socket wrench...but I get it.

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

It may look like a socket wrench, but it's probably a torque wrench since there are certain specifications involved.

@Abdul_Mossad... 9 күн бұрын

I really hope one of the aircraft carriers currently being built would be named USS Sleepy Joe...

@hoppercar 5 ай бұрын

I hope it's not plagued with cost overruns like the last one was

@user-fe1jh1yf4c 5 ай бұрын

Cost overruns typically occur on all new ships with different types of “new” tech. Pretty sure they’ve figured out the bugs n ironed out the wrinkles. The follow ships should go together like a PBJ sammmich.

@Red-Check-Mark 2 ай бұрын

@@user-fe1jh1yf4cWhen a bolt costs 35 dollars, no. US military overblows so hard on the military.

@mohdzafar5829 5 ай бұрын

Very nice👍❤

@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 5 ай бұрын

Much money. 🇺🇸🌎👍❤

@rogerlincoln451 5 ай бұрын

7:55 - What is that row of things at the very stern on the water line?

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

That's the stern gate. In the original Nimitz design, there was basically a ladder like a drawbridge on the back, and for the crew to go ashore usually required the ship renting a barge. Now they all have a fixed dock on the back.

@timfronimos459 4 ай бұрын

Just curious how long did it take to construct a carrier in WW2? I understand todays carriers are more complex but the over runs and cost over runs should be punished.

@brainwashingdetergent4128 4 ай бұрын

We aren't at war buddy no rush just get it right.

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

For the Essex class, about a year and a half to two years from keel laying to commissioning, but there WAS a war going on. The Kitty Hawk class, which was the last conventional carriers took about 4 years. Now add in the complexities of nuclear power and the ships infrastructure to support modern electronics, you can see why it would take longer. And the newest class, the Fords, have all kinds of new technology, such as more powerful reactors and electromagnetics replacing the old steam catapults.

@teddy2738 3 ай бұрын

La US NAVY llegó a tener una flota de 18 Portaaviones a fines de la Década de los años 80s. ¿ Ahora son mucho menos y no pasan de 12 o me equivoco ?🤔

@leroyjames2825 2 ай бұрын

It is the law to have no less than 11 Super Carriers (which they have). However, they also have about 10 (not sure of the number) smaller Carriers, which features F-35B's and helicopters.

@elijah91527 3 ай бұрын

I served on the CVA(N) 65 ENTERPRISE

@thegrinch8161 3 ай бұрын

I’ve asked this question before but as bloody usual I’ve forgotten so here it is again, why put coins underneath the island before it gets welded?.

@TravisBrady-wn8fr 3 ай бұрын

No carbon fiber and titanium hull?

@jamesagnew-hh2qy 5 ай бұрын

Awesome 😂

@kokomo9764 3 ай бұрын

What was crazy about the construction?

@herbie3oh3 3 ай бұрын

3:49 Mario in the flesh.

@J..a..y 5 ай бұрын

🤯

@world1734 5 ай бұрын

🇮🇹stupenda🇮🇹

@GauntletKI 5 ай бұрын

Need to make the nuclear reactor modularity removal so these bad boys can be museums after they are done. Can't do that with its current construction design.

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

But there also has to be a want for museum ships. The original Enterprise, CV-6, spent over 10 years in mothballs as various attempts to make her a museum ship fell through, and she was ultimately scrapped.

@WalterDWormack214 3 ай бұрын

Does ANYONE in the KZfaq-verse, know what year, the USS ENTERPRISE, is expected to go into active service?

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

It's SCHEDULED to be commissioned in 2029, and add probably another year before it's first deployment.

@anthonyhitchings1051 5 ай бұрын

silly narration - the rudder only fits one way!

@davidbell1619 3 ай бұрын

I wouldn't be to quick about retiring any operating Carrier.

@teddy2738 3 ай бұрын

¿ TRANSPORTISTA ? 🤔Mmmmmh ¿ estas hablando de un Camión o realmente de un Portaaviones ? post data : Generalmente un BOTS traduce la palabra " Portaaviones " a " Transportista "😁🤣🤣🤣

@TheKyle-ji6nq 3 ай бұрын

Air kraft keyriiiiyyyyyy😅😅😅😅

@karloyu3484 4 ай бұрын

💙💙💙👍

@streammaster_ 5 ай бұрын

That's pricetage in a half

@kiwifulla7370 3 ай бұрын

Do they not have 10 already?

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

10 Nimitz class and one Ford Class for a total of 11. But remember, the Fords are replacing the Nimitz class which was designed in the 1960s. The Nimitz itself was commissioned in 1975, and will be replaced by the new JFK about the time Nimitz will have been commissioned for 50 years. And the reason the US has so many is because they're covering two oceans, and there's a set cycle that a carrier goes through that requires soo many.

@bobdillon1138 2 ай бұрын

Why do they feel the need to dumb these things down so much.

@CheveraChino 3 ай бұрын

So what happens if all these nuclear ships sink? Does that mean we have an ocean that is poisoned and uninhabitable? 😅

@wilhelmmeyer89 3 ай бұрын

I guess the potential "enemies" of the US have already thought of ways to sink this huge monster. So how to sink $13 bn? But is this really just an aircraft carrier? Isn't it a big swimming city? Just imagine a A cruise ship company would own it and use it for tourism. Many tourists would love it. But no, war is much more important.

@user-by6ul7di4b 14 күн бұрын

8.01 The rear left of the ship is DAMAGED!!! looks like something hit it

@williamroberts6803 3 ай бұрын

Why not make it an enterprise class aircraft carrier? They named it after a person that was never elected president. Seriously?

@franznarf 4 ай бұрын

Folle?

@1love_train 4 ай бұрын

china: download this, download this

@mnblkjh6757 4 ай бұрын

🇺🇸👍🙂

@user-by6ul7di4b 14 күн бұрын

I would build our carrier with a belt of 60 cm steel belt around like a battle ship. Put 4 CWIS along the front of ship and another 8 on each side then another 4 at the back. total of 24 CWIS. No missiel will get through when t has this many bulletsr firing at same time

@alexanhuamani5503 3 ай бұрын

a pero nadie le dice nada pero si fuera otro pais se quejan porq se arman

@alexx8882 4 ай бұрын

What's the point of building this when you boat drone nowadays that can damage it ....

@alexx8882 4 ай бұрын

I think it's a waste of money

@bestamerica 5 ай бұрын

' keep up american buikd new better bigger largger fastter super aircraft carriers... not important about currencys... betteer take off the currencys and keep private mule

@brianazmy3156 5 ай бұрын

Wow, no footage of a union strike which happens often during the process. On every ship I worked on there, I would write "ARMY BEAT NAVY" (82nd Airborne) somewhere different every day. Years later at N.O.B. I would still see many of them. That place probably leads the league in deaths in the workplace which is hardly ever mentioned. Mostly from falls, electrocution, and HALON fire suppression systems. Working there in winter really sucks.

@user-by6ul7di4b 14 күн бұрын

13.57 the girl in the middle in overalls, is so big and heavy, they must had made special door ways so that she can get in

@ttli8630 4 ай бұрын

這應該是台灣的技術。

@Red-Check-Mark 2 ай бұрын

Biggest waste of money on the planet. 😊

@falgosh5956 5 ай бұрын

nothing new

@lag9765 4 ай бұрын

And don't forget to mention the biggest polluters in the world...

@LayeSeck-es8zv 5 ай бұрын

@wandahelmer1038 17 күн бұрын

Don't drink the water...😊

@peterhoulis1184 4 ай бұрын

How about selling 1 to Australia to keep the Chinese on their toes

@Red-Check-Mark 2 ай бұрын

China would sink it in a heartbeat.

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

No we're doing something to REALLY keep the Chinese on their toes. We're selling the Aussies 3-5 of our NEWEST submarines.

@Red-Check-Mark 26 күн бұрын

@@martykarr7058 Yes, cause the Chinese don't also have advanced submarines or weapons to destroy submarines. 🤣

@r3b3lvegan89 3 ай бұрын

“It’s funny when it rains it pours they got money for wars but can’t feed the poor”

@stanmans 5 ай бұрын

Lots of rust.

@galactuscausandoimpactus9521 4 ай бұрын

Adoro quando os americanos continuam a cometer os mesmos erros sempre: gastam rios de dinheiro nesse elefante 🐘 branco pouco útil e que demora quinze anos pra ser feito, enquanto os inimigos tem mísseis de cruzeiro hipersônicos disparados de navios de superfície e principalmente submarinos 😂☝️

@Sampson21 2 ай бұрын

And what little shthole country are you from? America is the greatest country in the world, and has the most powerful military. Your country could only dream of being half as powerful

@lindebr 3 ай бұрын

What a load of crap. Design work was done years ago.

@jonhayes9750 5 ай бұрын

Build a lot of homes for the needy 13 billion dollars

@soteriamediaproductions6165 5 ай бұрын

@jonhayes9750 Only for some other country to come in and take all those Homs for the needy, if left unprotected. It’s happened all thru history.

@vernacular1483 5 ай бұрын

Riiiiiiight….. cos what we need is more ppl who can’t or won’t provide for themselves 👍

@Red-Check-Mark 2 ай бұрын

@@vernacular1483You do know that homes are unaffordable right now and more housing would lower prices, right?

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

@@Red-Check-Mark So rising inflation and interest rates wouldn't have anything to do with the higher cost of housing?

@Red-Check-Mark 26 күн бұрын

@martykarr7058 Factors of rising costs, yes. The reason why? No. More housing would make lower housing costs as there are more options available. When you monopolize housing, you can charge whatever you want. Who is going to stop you? That's why monopolized businesses are a threat to Capitalism as a system.

@yunafujiwara7145 3 ай бұрын

Good to see The Big E reincarnated again .. 🫡

@tylerdurden4006 4 ай бұрын

All this power and too scared to deploy them in the red sea and actually pulled them from the area to keep safe instead of helping the shipping crisis.

@scotttild 3 ай бұрын

Its not 13 billion its more like 25 billion. People have been using 13 billion for the last 5 years. Its an absurd waist of money. We have 12 when the next closest barley has 2. We would be fine with half the amount.

@garyevans3051 3 ай бұрын

Its spelled waste, you used waist as in waist size. Worry about your own mistakes

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

We have 11, divide by two oceans, means approximately 5 per ocean. Of those 5 per ocean, one ic coming back from deployment and entering a minor refit, one is preparing for deployment, one is on it's way to where it will be deployed, one is on station already, and one is undergoing a major refit.

@niltonpiovan1000 4 ай бұрын

USA Must pay your debts that is close of US$ 35 Trillion Dollar . Is more easy built ships with money of overseas people .

@seanitoism 4 ай бұрын

Too bad its not the USS Donald Trump because it would be biggly.

@miscaccount9438 3 ай бұрын

Healthcare please. Wtf

@jeffreymcurtis 22 күн бұрын

Why don't you pester Congress to give us their coverage?

@Jasona1976 4 ай бұрын

What a colossal waste of money.

@paul-cu7md 5 ай бұрын

Waste of people's hard earned money

@burhanuddinsakarwala5033 3 ай бұрын

Keep taxing your citizens harder with no affordable healthcare. Sooner or later the military industrial complex will learn a hard lesson.

@maundamartin59 5 ай бұрын

Why does the carrier named after a BLACK MAN HAS TO BE LAST!!!!!!!!😂😂😂😂? WHEN there were two CARRIERS NAMED AFTER THE JFK AND ENTERPRIZE!!!! 🤣🤣🤣Anyway,,,, i lived BRIEFLY in NEWPORT NEWS in 2018 I think. while the FORD WAS in her final stages of construction. It was a trip to see how full the parking lot was in terms of EMPLOYEES. And ALSO,,,,the RESIDENTS OF NEWPORT NEWS, for the most part,from my observations dont give a hoot about these phenomenal vessels being built in their town. Its just one of them THANGS. Just like LIVING IN HAMPTON ROADS period, Suffolk, Hampton, Newport News, and Portsmouth, cross bridge and tunnels you got Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. Which comprises of NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, LITTLE CREEK AMPHIB. BASE, AND NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA. But us CIVILIANS that live here dont even pay NO ATTENTION to none of that.

@nealk6387 5 ай бұрын

What the hell does it matter when the ship named after a black man is launched?

@maundamartin59 5 ай бұрын

@@nealk6387 ITS A JOKE. ESPECIALLY the fact that in DORIS MILLER's TIME, SEGREGATION was as acceptable as taking in a BREATH.

@HappiKarafuru 5 ай бұрын

Well it name not just after Black man, it was named after a Black Messman onboard USS Virginia during Attack on Pearl Harbor 1941. He was awarded the Navy Cross, the first African American Sailor to receive the Navy highest award, second only MoH. For his citation, he was on deck on his doomed ship, he jumped into a twin mounted 50 cal, and start shoot at incoming Japanese bomber and fighter

@TAllyn-qr3io 3 ай бұрын

“Further strengthening the US NAVY’s carrier fleet”…yep but, that isn’t the purpose for anything being built military wise. 1) it provides a $hitload of jobs that the politicians whose district the industrial facility resides…to keep them in office. Be it aircraft manufacturers, tanks, rifles, ammo…etc., and the supply chains further ahead or preceding. 2) it keeps the Military Industrial Complex well fed 3) justifies a near $1 trillion defense budget…a carrier is an easier identifier of money spent vs. a toilet seat. The minions want to see where their money is going and oh boy, a carrier strike group sure does that! I am a Navy veteran and retired Army and believe in a strong military. Was in when Reagan was pushing a 600 ship fleet. Was stationed aboard a destroyer at that time. But, we outspent the Warsaw Pact and suddenly we didn’t need 600 combat vessels. 🫡

@martykarr7058 26 күн бұрын

In case you missed it, we're in Cold War II, with China building their own carriers, and Russia upgrading it's submarine fleet.