Posted on 03/10/2016 2:45:54 PM PST by zeestephen
A $13 billion U.S. aircraft carrier is about to hit the open seas. It’s the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the most expensive and most advanced warship ever built. The ship was christened in November 2013 and is scheduled to be commissioned this month.
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US Navy’s New $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier Will Dominate The Seas
As the worlds biggest floating target /fixed.
I thought current thinking is that AC’s are sitting ducks.
Anti-ship missiles have increased in range.
Now, even some poor countries can afford the type of hypersonic missiles that can reach aircraft carriers —this is new.
To remain defensible, carriers must have longer range aircraft.
Following the cancellation of the UCLASS three weeks ago, this exciting new weapons simply went away.
Our carriers will have to sail KNOWING that in many cases they can come under attack by the type of missiles that the USA does not yet have.
We need to get lasers in a REAL HURRY.
She’s beautiful even if it is an artists rendering.
This is 2016, not 1941. Technology has moved a long ways. But the US, rather the congressional members who have factories in their districts (IE, California, New Jersey, Mass, New York, Virginia, Washington and Florida)
It will dominate the seas. Or its a $13 sitting duck. The US itself could sink it with numerous weapons.
Air to sea missiles
Land to sea missiles
Ships
Drones
Subs
You would need a fleet of destroyers around it and numerous fighters constantly in the air to keep it safe. And its never safe from either Russia or China.
So it was christened the Gerald Ford.
I wonder what ship will be muslimed the Barack Obama...
By the way that’s a computer enhanced drawing not a picture.
I wonder what ship will be muslimed the Barack Obama...
A floating piece of crap.
The electro-magnetic catapult on it works too good... They had to dial back the power a bit or it would cause too high of G-force.
I was thinking there’s something hubristic about naming capital ships for politicians and people. The tradition that brought us Enterprise and Intrepid seems more noble and less self-centered.
We have lasers already...problem is they are line-of-sight weapons. By the time you would be able to see a hypersonic weapon, it would almost be to late to shoot it down.
Either that or make some sub driver very, very happy.
Re: “That’s a computer enhanced drawing [of the A.C.] not a picture.”
Correct.
None of the photos in the link captured the fully outfitted carrier.
Looks small for a carrier that holds...
“75-plus aircraft ready to be launched at any given time”.
must be small a/c
Hurrah for YOU. The old tradition of naming Aircraft Carriers after HISTORIC Navy ships and/or historid battles. WE (back then) cherished the tradition and worked our ships to LIVE UP to the history of the past.
Enterprise, Midway, Yorktown, Hornet, Tarawa, Iwo and others. Names that were not to be allowed to fade away.
I remember when on hearing the very NAME of a ship would tell us what kind and/or type it was.
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