07-24-20, 12:03 PM
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The USS Ford CVN-78 will likely not deploy until 2023.
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/20...ons-elevators/
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The U.S. Navy is over the halfway mark in certifying the new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford’s 11 advanced weapons elevators, which have been at the center of an ongoing controversy over delays in getting the Navy’s most expensive-ever warship ready for its first deployment.
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The elevators are designed to reduce the time it takes to get bombs armed and to the flight deck to mount on aircraft.
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the USS Ford was packed with at least 23 new technologies. Those included a complete redesign of the systems used to arm, launch and recover the ship’s aircraft.
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All those systems have, in their turn, caused delays in getting the Navy’s most expensive-ever warship to the fleet, which was originally to have deployed in 2018, but now will likely not deploy until 2023. The Ford cost the Navy roughly $13.3 billion, according to the latest Congressional Research Service report on the topic.
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