Aircraft Carriers III

test bd said:

Yes indeed.. I'd like to see one of the ships named after an event or place in Vietnam..

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

well they plan for 11 only have 3 named. So perhaps down the line. Although the Hue City is out already a cruiser.

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Engineers are frantically working to solve engine problems on the Royal Australian Navy's two largest ships, with fears the Landing Helicopter Docks (LHDs) could be out of action for several weeks.

The Canberra Class Amphibious Assault Ships HMAS Canberra and HMAS Adelaide are currently docked at Sydney's Garden Island Naval Base where maintenance crews are trying to identify and resolve issues with the LHDs' azimuth propulsion system.

Defence sources have confirmed to the ABC they currently expect the problem will take between seven and 10 days to address, but if further complications are found, the 27,000-tonne ships could remain sidelined for even longer.

The Defence Force insists the inspections have "had no impact on Navy meeting its operational tasks".

In a statement to the ABC on Monday night the Defence Department confirmed a propulsion issue had been identified on board HMAS Canberra during recent trials with military helicopters.

"As a prudent measure, the same inspections were conducted on HMAS Adelaide and identified emergent issues," it said in a statement.

"It is too early to determine the extent of this emergent work and Defence is working to identify the causes and develop a repair strategy."

Unavailable ships a 'significant failure': Feeney
Federal Opposition MP David Feeney, who sits on Parliament's Joint Standing Committee for Defence, Foreign Affairs and Trade, said it was a worrying development.

"The news that both of our major amphibious ships are unavailable for service in this

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is very, very troubling and represents a significant failure," Mr Feeney said.

"The good news is that the capability gap can be filled by HMAS Choules, a vessel procured by the former Labor government in 2010, but nonetheless these amphibious ships are designed for precisely this work that they're now not able to do."

Mr Feeney demanded the Government provide a full explanation of the problems.

"The Government does need to explain to us precisely what is the engineering problem that they're confronting, how did it happen, and I think, very importantly, will these ships be available for service in Operation Talisman Sabre [in July]."

On Monday, the Chief of Defence, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, said the military was well positioned to provide immediate assistance to local communities within Cyclone Debbie's storm zone, if requested.

"We are ready and able to respond to this emergency in support of civilian emergency authorities and the residents of north-eastern Queensland once the full impact of [Cyclone] Debbie is known," he said.

As a precaution, HMAS Choules — the nominated HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief) ship — left Sydney on Monday morning to head to Queensland "to be ready to support recovery efforts if required".

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The overdue first Ford-class aircraft carrier is set to go underway on its first set of sea trials this week, said the commander of Naval Sea Command on Monday.

Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is set to leave the Huntington Ingalls Industries shipyard in Newport News, Va. for its first set of builder’s trials following an extensive set of pier-side testing to prove systems before the carrier goes underway for the first time.

NAVSEA’s Vice Adm. Tom Moore said told an audience at the Navy League Sea Air Space 2017 he expected the ship to head to sea sometime this week.

Prior to leading NAVSEA, Moore was the program manager for the Ford-class program.

The crew of Ford has recently completed extensive pier-side tests that have the sailors onboard operate the carrier as if it were at sea –

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“She’s been through fast cruise which is essentially a dry run for going to sea,” said Capt. Doug Oglesby CVN79/80 Program Manager said during a briefing in the conference.
“That’s one of the last steps before going to trials.”

The builder’s trials, which will be conducted by HII, will not have the ship launch or recover aircraft but demonstrate the most basic functionality of the ship, Ye-Ling Wang, program manager for future aircraft carriers at the Program Executive Office for Aircraft Carriers (PMS 378),

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Following those trials, the Navy will hold its own series of acceptance trials before the carrier delivers to the service.

The $12.9 billion, 100,000-ton carrier is the first for the class of the service and is slated to commission into the service sometime later this year, after several delays in schedule.

Service leaders have said the complexities of integrating several new technologies into the carrier were to blame for holdups.

“It’s the first new designed aircraft carrier in 40 years. [There are a] significant number of new, advanced systems that don’t exist anywhere else in the world,” Sean Stackley — then Navy assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition — told reporters in January.
“It’s not until you bring them all together on the aircraft carrier that you get to test the fully integrated system, and so with all first-of-class ships we have been in a bit of a test-and-fix mode as we go through the test program.”

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Jura said:

it's USNI News
NAVSEA: Carrier Gerald R. Ford Set to Start Sea Trials this Week

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Jura said:

Carrier Ford Sails This Week; Future Destroyer Proposals In 2020

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Psalm 139:9-10 New King James Version (NKJV)

9 If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.

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