Posted on 06/01/2017 11:25:05 AM PDT by C19fan
The U.S. Navy has officially received the first of a whole new class of aircraft carriers.
The Navy announced Thursday that the USS Gerald R. Ford will now go through various workups at sea before becoming operational in 2020.
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High maintenance I bet.
First On Racing Day.
Found On River Dead.....
Do the pilots have to wear leather helmets?
I don’t think we should name ships after politicians.
One of my beliefs is I think all stadiums should be named Taxpayer i.e. The “Seattle Taxpayer Stadium” or the “Georgia Taxpayer Dome”. It would force announcers to say taxpayer.
Will it fall down the stairs?
Ford??!?!?
As it was leaving the dock it scraped a bouy
The ship’s motto is “Integrity at the Helm.” What does that mean? The ship is water tight at the bridge? What about the rest of the ship?
Bravo
Can a carrier really be invulnerable to super high speed missles?
Ford as a politician gets joked about, Ford as a Naval Officer rocked. He was a genuine, AAA chrome plated hero.
The selling point for the Ford class is a much smaller crew (compared to other CVNs) and the ability to generate at least 25% more sorties a day, using electro-magnetic launch technology—the same technology President Trump has criticized as being too expensive.
I would think that all would hinge on the ROE
I thought that I read that that was deep-sixed. Are they still going with it?
All depends of the capabilities of the CGs and DDGs that go to sea to protect the carrier. Of course, the best defense of all would be longer-range strike aircraft that can carry the fight into enemy waters/territory, or intercept missile-carrying bombers at long distance from the CVN.
With the retirement of the F-14 and switch to the F/A-18, the combat radius of CAP and strike aircraft has greatly decreased—and the Navy compounded the problem by retiring the KA-3. I have heard talk the S-3/ES-3/S-3B may be making a comeback; the jets have thousands of flight hours left on the airframe, and carrier groups could use the ESM, ASW, tanking and strike capabilities they bring to the table.
What? No oiler named USS Harvey Milk?
Didn’t the Russians just demonstrate super high speed “carrier killer” cruise
Missile?
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