An excursion for specific tourists is held in Antalya. 4,500 sailors from the world’s largest American aircraft carrier went on a tour of Turkey’s most popular tourist province. It is about the aircraft carrier “Gerald R. Ford”, which dropped anchor in the port of Antalya.
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According to the Turkish publication Borsatek, this “visitor”, a US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, entered service on July 17, 2017, and is the world’s largest aircraft carrier with a gross displacement of 100,000 tons, a length of 333 meters, and a flight deck of 78 meters.
The ship is equipped with 4 GE A1B reactor power plants with a capacity of 75,000 hp. With the help of electricity obtained from these reactors, 100 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, 20 EA-18G Growlers, and 30 helicopters can be lifted into the air.
There are 4,500 personnel on board the ship. It was they who went on excursions to the sights of Antalya.