It is the most expensive aircraft carrier. After 14 years of design and construction, it cost $13.3 billion by the end of 2021, according to the US Navy. That’s about double the cost of the previous Nimitz series aircraft carrier. And how much criticism there has been over it! It was called a headache for the Pentagon, an unnecessary waste of money.
Many military experts agreed that the American Navy simply did not need such expensive and complex aircraft carriers.