I have been reviewing this and the 13.5 billion dollar aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. I know more about the Ford built by Grumman affiliates. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/10/01/why-john-mccain-called-this-13-billion-aircraft-carrier-a-spectacular-debacle/?utm_term=.1fec1aef004e. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_carrier.
Now let me take you to the House armed services Committee Chairrman , Mac Thornberry of Wichita fall, Texas in charge of oversight on this debacle. . The Ford Aircraft carrier failed. It attempted to launch heavy weapons loaded Jets with something that didn’t work— “The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS)”. The carrier cannot be refitted to the old system or functional in any meaningful ways . It is just a big piece of junk.
Now we should see congressional over site kicking ass BUT NOOOO!!. Chairman Thornberry has not held a single hearing on the greatest pentagon debacle in our history!! I surmise why. He got$1.5 million in campaign contributions to his uncontested election November 8th. Of Which $1.1 million was from Grumman and affiliates!!!!! Guess how much “ MAC” spent on his campaign??? $1.3 million? Why? I will surmise “how”? To his family .Lock his ass UP!!
The Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer Broke Down in the Panama Canal
The US Navy’s newest destroyer broke down while transiting the Panama Canal, colliding with the Canal lock walls and forcing the $4 billion dollar ship to resort to a tow from a tugboat. The USS Zumwalt was towed to a former U.S. naval station in Panama where it will undergo emergency repairs. This is just months after a similar incident in September.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a24015/zumwalt-breakdown-panama-canal/
It can become the USS Gerald R Ford (LDH-9)
Home for a bunch of F-35B's and V-22's.