A Nimitz Class Carrier Shock Trial US Navy
Craig Hooper, Forbes: The Navy Obfuscates On Shock Testing The $13 Billion USS Ford
In a normally quiet House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness hearing yesterday, a prepared Congressional Representative Elaine Luria held two Navy shipbuilding and vessel sustainment leaders to account, demanding–and often not getting–answers about the Navy’s Optimized Fleet Response Plan surface ship deployment scheme, the Navy’s carrier maintenance infrastructure, and the Navy’s brand-new $13 billion super-carrier, the troubled USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78).
It was a masterful performance by the first-term Congressional Representative from Virginia’s Second District, and it earned accolades from her peers on the Committee.
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WNU Editor: This is not good.
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The Nimitz class is a perfectly reliable and sturdy design. The fac that the US "military industrial complex" feels the urge to reinvent the wheel with every new ship class is destroying US readiness.
Increasingly automated, complex, fragile and expensive systems are being trotted out every cycle. Making Naval shipbuilding too costly and producing glass hulks that are impossible to fight or repair.
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Unless the make propellers or propeller shafts differently, I don't think it is that.
My guess is the electro-magnetic rails of the catapult system and perhaps the new elevators do not take well to shock.
Maybe the saying has to be updated.
Close only counts with nukes, hand grenades, and aircraft carriers.
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