[smoothsailing]

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, in a video played towards the end of the ceremony, announced that CVN 80, third ship of the new GERALD R. FORD-class carriers, will be named ENTERPRISE, thus becoming the ninth American naval ship to bear the name.

A graphic showing what the future USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 80) is expected to look like when she joins the fleet after 2025. The aircraft are F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters, F/A-18 E and F Super Hornet strike fighters, E-2D Hawkeye electronic warfare planes, and an unmanned strike jet modeled on the X-47B sitting on the No. 4 catapult. (U.S. Navy)

[GeronL]

A new ENTERPRISE... that is cool

[SkyDancer]

Yea!!!!!

[DesertRhino]

Thats good news! Just hope it survives the Obama vendetta and actually gets built.

[tanknetter]

A graphic showing what the future USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 80) is expected to look like when she joins the fleet after 2025.

Hopefully she won't be carrying the first carrier Hornet's service number on her bow. ;-)

[A.A. Cunningham]

Note to the artist: Graphic fail, the numbers on the flightdeck are backwards.