The True Cost Of Keeping A US Navy Supercarrier Deployed For 300 Days

It comes as no surprise that the US Navy doesn't advertise the daily price tag of operating a Carrier Strike Group on deployment at sea. Yet, based on publicly available information from the Pentagon, the rough estimate is a staggering $6.5 million a day. That implies a basic bill of roughly $1.95 billion for a 300-day deployment of a supercarrier like the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and its entourage of smaller vessels.