Huntington Ingalls Floods Dry Dock to Float Aircraft Carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Oct. 29, 2019)--Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) today began flooding the dry dock at its Newport News Shipbuilding division where the keel of aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) was laid in 2015.

The controlled process of slowly filling the dry dock with more than 100 million gallons of water takes place over several days, and marks the first time the ship has been in water.

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