Posted on 10/27/2021 5:03:58 AM PDT by PIF
While Carrier Air Wing 8 (CVW-8) has embarked, most recently in spring this year, it was a reduced-size composition that practiced integrated carrier strike group operations. Embarking a full-size air wing is clearly now a priority, to explore how the carrier and its subsystems actually work in a fully representative, sustained, on-cruise, operating environment.
Still, it will not be one of the first carriers capable of deploying the MQ-25 Stingray tanker. That will require a number of additional modifications and testing.
As modular and advanced as it may be, the USS Gerald R. Ford will not be able to operate the Navy’s newest strike fighter, the F-35C Lightning II, either. Doing so will also require a number of upgrades and trials.
That said, the issues are being worked, the Ford is making progress, and by the time the Kennedy and Enterprise come online, all of these issues will be in the rearview mirror.
The new woke military system?
Yet, in the modern age of submarine-launched cruise and hypersonic missiles, the piloted airplane and aircraft carriers are obsolete.
by the time the Kennedy and Enterprise come online, all of these issues will be in the rearview mirror.
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Last bit of the article implies that, if the Ford does not operate to expectations, the Navy is looking at spending the money for more of the Ford class on smaller carrier types.
There is no certainty that the Ford class will ever operate F-35s
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No, the gradual collapse of civilisation. I began to suspect this when I found out we could no longer produce the Saturn 5 engines or the steel armour required to build an Iowa class battleship.
Fitting for a carrier named after a milquetoast, do-shit who was never elected President.
They should name the next garbage scow after the latest never elected moron.
Do we make them bigger and bigger so we can see them more easily from space?
The Naval Academy is a woke cesspool. Its officers have shown they play games of personal enrichment from Kuala Lumpur to Hawaii. Ship’s officers bump into ships at sea. Mixed crews of male and female are a joke. In short, in efficiency our navy ranks well below most other nations. And now this joke of a moving foxhole that attracts the eye.
“Fitting for a carrier named after a milquetoast, do-shit who was never elected President.”
He didn’t hesitate to act when Cambodia took the Mayaguez. He had just become president and I was so proud of him.
People are supposed to do their jobs. Just because we have had so many not do theirs, doesn’t mean we lower the bar.
He wasn’t evil. He was a good American. Not being Carter shouldn’t get you a class of carriers though.
I hope you are right. My son enlisted a year ago. He qualified for advance electronics. I hope he ends up on a good ship with a competent commander.
Yet, in the modern age of submarine-launched cruise and hypersonic missiles, the piloted airplane and aircraft carriers are obsolete.
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I think you’re correct. Just at the battleship was the key surface ship of WW1, the aircraft carrier was the key advancement in ship technology in WW2. WW3 will be different. Carriers, with all their required support and defense ships, can be taken out with a single hypersonic weapon carrying a small nuclear warhead. Even a surface skimming conventional cruise missile could likely evade radar long enough to reach a carrier. Carriers put too many eggs in one basket.
I bet it sails with contractors on board tying to continue to finish a very large punch list.
I bet it sails with contractors on board tying to continue to finish a very large punch list.
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Sounds like it will.
The relatively recent tendency to name American naval vessels after politicians or leftist icons (Harvey Milk, for example) is just another indication of how political/'woke' our military has become...
The with no urinals, but it has a maternity ward. What a joke.
“ They should name the next garbage scow after the latest never elected moron.”
How about naming the next garbage scow after repeatedly elected morons.
The USS Adam Schiff comes to mind.
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