Posted on 01/24/2020 11:57:18 PM PST by Spktyr
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U.S. Navy's F/A-18 Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler, T-45 Goshawk, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, and E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, C-2A Greyhound, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20, flight operations test on USS Gerald R. Ford's (CVN 78) flight deck, Jan. 2020.
Ford is currently conducting Aircraft Compatibility Testing to further test its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG).
Yeah, the Germans - the ‘superior technology’ power? They *lost* to the ‘cheap crap’ power, the US.
China is today’s ‘cheap crap’ power.
Yes, and the US was the ‘cheap crap’ power in WW2.
fat man
You do realize that many of the key scientists on the Manhattan Project were not in fact of American origin? A case can be made that without the European nationals - especially Einstein and Fermi! - the project would have been a failure. In a sense, the Project wasn’t really American.
Again, the world perception of the US prior to WW2 was that of a purveyor of cheap, crappy mass produced goods. The current world perception of China at present is a purveyor of cheap crappy mass produced goods. Add that to their technical capabilities and anyone with two brain cells to rub together would be concerned.
As for “get an education” - okay, boomer. Whatever.
It not about the EMALS working its about the sortie rate which cannot be sustained to date. And then there is the elevators not working issue, the radar not working issue, etc
The Chinese are building a flat deck nuclear EMALS carrier due on line in a few years
it has always ‘worked,’ the problem is the sustained combat sortie rate which is NOT fixed.
The problem is not the ride, it is how often can it fire off. It has to meet the same combat sortie rate as wire systems.
Yes, but the players roles are reversed - we have the superior tech; they have the shipyards and manufacturing facilities on order of the WWII basis that we had. We have only two or three shipyards churning out one or two items a year; they have many churning out many items a year.
Theirs are relatively cheap to make and based on known tech - for the most part; ours takes mountains of cash to make one example of unproven tech which usually does not work for years, if ever: the DDG 1000 series; the LCS series, the Ford series, and every one’s favorite - the F-35 with its 4% Mission Capable rate and totally broken ALIS system.
How do you know that?
Do you know what you are talking about?
Aircrews though seem to like EMALS. The Navy Times quotes Lt. Cmdr. Jamie Struck of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 as saying that being shot off the deck felt different with EMALS. “With the old steam catapults, there’s all that steam, that energy built up and as soon as that hold-back lets go, it can be kind of violent, a lot of bouncing before you get off the deck. EMALS was different . . . the hold-back release was less abrupt than what I’m used to, which is good.”
As the Navy's accountants and operations analysts no doubt pointed out, less stress during launches adds up to longer service life for the Navy's overworked and aging carrier air assets. Expensive and troublesome in development EMALS may be, but it will save billions once the kinks get worked out.
Missing from that list: The F-35C
The Navy's New Aircraft Carrier Won't Have Stealth F-35s
How can that be?
“ Remember, the Germans had “superior technology” and sneered at the Americans that could only churn out appliances and cheap crap in WW2. How did that end, again?”
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The Germans were ahead of us in certain technologies, missles, rocketry, jet engines, tanks, come to mind. Problem was though, German economy didn’t have the band-with, scale, to deliver in meaningful numbers. Additionally, they didn’t know how best to strategically apply these technology. Also, there was (still is) German tendency to over engineer.
But, we had superiority in certain key areas; we were and still are masters of logistics and projecting power. We developed it during our civil war and continued to improve the technology. No country comes even close to us. In part, this is made possible by the strength of our economy.
Also, we are the only country that has the ability to build a working aircraft carrier. I could go on but my finger is tired. But, I think I’ve given the idea.
One last comment; I’ve never understood why we didn’t upgrade the Sherman tank with a Diesel engine. We did introduce the Sheridan which was basically an upgraded Sherman at the tail-end of WWII but the war was basically over by then.
You need to keep up, China is churning out ships for its blue water navy like ma made cookies.
China has a vast and novel assortment of drones including stealth and possible LW drones
If you imagine trade agreements will subdue the Chinese, you need to read Xi’s speech Xi Focus: Xi stresses racing against time to reach Chinese Dream
And one drone did not put Iran at bay - rather it revealed how good our intel networks are and the moles in the Al-Qods forces. Iran will change tactics to counter and will will counter theirs etc. Iran;s goal remains the same - the elimination of the US, Israel and Rome on its path to genocidal nuclear war.
In a sense, the Project wasn’t really American.
Nonsense. It was DISTINCTLY American. Thoae scientist were wilfully and happily here instead of their countries of origin exactly like everyone else who came here here since time immemorial. They were here because America is America.
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