I tend to agree one thing we may see though is a return of the smaller carriers if ya call 50-60000 tons small in fact the Senate has set a side about 30 million for just such a study to check the readability of them
US Navy Ford Class nuclear carriers
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kwaigonegin
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I too am very disappointed with the emals aboard Ford. For sure I was confident it would be ready by now in accordance to the ship's construction timeline!
I too understand the pain and delays when implementing new technologies however in his case it has gone far beyond even the most pessimistic timetable.
They need to get it right soon. A carrier is basically useless if she can't launch aircrafts and everyday that it is delayed, costs American taxpayers million$ nevermind negatively impacting the readiness of the navy!
Let me tell an anecdote:
A Hungarian student worked some years at the Delft University of Technology in the late sixties and he was very good in the Dutch language. He left a computer program that simulated something and as all such simulations it was only valid for a limited range of input values. When you got outside that range the program cursed you. For years after he went back to Hungary that program was used and the users complained about the curses without thinking that they might be doing something wrong.
Using slide rules will not solve the problem but knowing the limits of your simulation and testing whether you are not going outside the limits when you don't know it must be the solution. That costs a lot of money and of course time but it is cheaper than building something at great cost and only then finding out. I suppose the problem lies with the managers who are saving money wherever they can.
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It does sound like they reached for a little too much with the Ford and Zumwalt and not enough with the LCS
Jura The idiot
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of course it did NOT; 'pessimistic timetable' would mean Navy should return to 'goddamned steam' on carrier, Trump says
May 11, 2017
That would take a long time, what with completing the necessary redesign. It might be better to buy the Chinese EM cat that might by then have be proved.
Same from me my friend.
Fair winds and a following sea.
Just the same...I am glad they have that carrier and still believe it will be a HUGE assett and help revolutionize carrier ops, and particularly improve them with the new class.
still...it is strange to me that they are commissioning her without so much as a single fixe wing aircraft having landed or taken off from her deck.
They have a LOT of work to do to get those operations down with the new equipment and I want them to START DOING THAT SOONEST!
They should have gotten a squadron or two on bord and checked out the trapping and catting before commissioning IMHO...but I expect now they will start doing that with a will. THAT is precisely what they need to be doing.
Here ya' go...
I'm not watching..boring..very boring.
Oh by the way pilotonline has US Navy news stories not found elsewhere. They are part of the Virginia Pilot newspaper from the Norfolk VA area...also know as Tidewater.