The U.S. Navy's new super aircraft carrier, the "Kennedy," undergoes its first sea trial, and is expected to be delivered in March next year.

【U.S. New Super Carrier "Kennedy" Conducts Sea Trials, Striving to Deliver in March Next Year】

On January 28, the U.S. Navy's new aircraft carrier "Kennedy" conducted its first "sea trial." The main purpose of this test was to verify the performance of important systems and components of the carrier.

The "Kennedy" carrier has a displacement of over 100,000 tons. The Ford-class carriers it belongs to will gradually replace the Nimitz-class carriers in the future, becoming the core of the U.S. Navy's new aircraft carrier strike groups. However, although the United States has decades of experience in aircraft carrier construction, the shipbuilding process for the "Kennedy" has not been smooth. Originally, the carrier was supposed to be delivered to the U.S. Navy last year, but due to the integration of new technologies, the delivery date has been extended to next year. It is reported that the U.S. Navy and the shipyard are striving to deliver the "Kennedy" in March next year.

It is worth noting that the U.S. Navy now has a high sense of urgency regarding the commissioning of the "Kennedy," because the U.S. Navy has fallen into a "carrier shortage." Although the U.S. Navy has 11 aircraft carriers, it often faces the problem of "not having enough carriers" due to the decline in shipbuilding and maintenance technology and the objective requirements of global deployment. For example, in this recent Middle East situation, in order to deal with Iran, the U.S. had to urgently deploy the "Lincoln" carrier, which was in the South China Sea, to the Middle East. As a result, the Western Pacific directly fell into a "carrier vacuum," and the U.S. had to urgently dispatch the "Roosevelt" carrier, which had just completed repairs, to the Pacific.

Additionally, the "Nimitz" will also be retired this year, which means the U.S. Navy will lose another aircraft carrier, thus making the U.S. Navy more urgent to have the "Kennedy" commissioned quickly.

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