Posted on 10/27/2021 5:03:58 AM PDT by PIF
After multiple issues and delays, the USS Gerald R. Ford is now set to go to sea for its maiden deployment in 2022
The much-delayed maiden deployment for the U.S. Navy’s new aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford is now scheduled to take place next year, four years later than originally planned. The nuclear-powered vessel is the lead ship in a new class of supercarriers, four of which have been ordered, with the three additional units now under assembly. A decision on the configuration of a fifth is due next year. With a whole range of advantages promised over the current Nimitz class carriers, the Navy is keen to get the first of the Ford class into operation, but it has been a long wait, with many setbacks due to the inability of critical systems to function as intended.
“Everything is on track,” Rear Adm. Gregory Huffman, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 12, recently told USNI News in an interview.
... many of these issues have seen improvement or been solved outright, with fixes announced for the powerplant, successful tests of EMALS and AAG, and confirmation that all the technical data for aircraft launch and recovery had been gathered.
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Urinals are for cisgendered people and unacceptable in our modern navy, but they do have granite-topped washroom (head) sinks. So there is that luxury.
In the next major war aircraft carriers will not survive past a week or two. The only satisfaction Americans will get is watching its ridiculous, woke generals, decked out like third-world world dictators with their gaudy medals hanging off them like Christmas trees, try to explain away how stupid and useless they are.
I don't know about you but I was comforted by the Rainbow US Navy's announcement of its first all-sodomite crew where the rotor is not the only thing going “round and round.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/05/the_us_navy_has_met_an_important__and_historic__new_metric.html
What could go wrong?
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“... while Biden’s military is quickly becoming an expensive version of a college dormitory, the Chinese are very open about the fact that they are working to toughen their boys because they worry that they are too effeminate. If these two troops clash, I don’t think social justice bitch slapping and cancel culture are going to be very effective against a Chinese military trained to win wars.”
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a Chinese military trained to win shooting wars, as opposed to American military training to win social justice wars ... Nothing will go wrong ... for the Chinese military.
Gerald Ford was damage control officer on the light carrier CVL-26 Monterey. His actions during a typhoon and subsequent fire quite possibly save that ship & crew. I’m no fan of Gerald Ford — the politician — either, but give the guy some credit for manning up when the situation called for it.
Ok. He deserves an entire class of carriers named after him because he manned a fire extinguisher in a typhoon.
Well, he did rather more than that. And yes the Navy & Marine Corps tend to name ships after people that distinguish themselves, and occasionally that extends to politicians who hold the throttle on ship building budgets. (Frank Forrestal, Carl Vinson, etc.)
The new carrier looks much bigger then the one on the right.
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