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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
When finished, the giant 1,106-foot USS Gerald R. Ford will be able to launch 220 airstrikes per day from its two runways, hold 4,000 sailors and marines, and be virtually invisible to enemy radar. The Navy also plans to buy another three such carriers, at a cost of $43 billion, to complete its fleet... costs overrunning to the tune of nearly $3 billion and major delays.
Instead of representing overruns in billion$, they need to be measured in "Solyndras".


19 posted on 09/30/2013 7:52:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Current engineering cannot make 90,000 tons of steel “invisible” to radar. Design can make a large ship like the Ford seem a little smaller on a radar screen, but no ways invisible.


72 posted on 10/01/2013 4:03:14 AM PDT by X Fretensis
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