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| Tango01 | 09 Apr 2015 11:28 a.m. PST |
America (LHA 6),completed final contractor trials (FCT) April 3. FCT, ran by the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), is part of a series of post-delivery tests the ship has been preparing for since before commissioning. During the trials, the ship and its major systems are exercised, tested and corrected as required. Ensign Nicholas Haan, America's assistant FCT coordinator, likened the experience to owning a new car with a warranty about to expire. "That is exactly what we are doing right now. The warranty on our ship, straight from the factory, is going to expire soon, so we want to catch all the discrepancies we can find, make sure they are all noted and get them fixed," said Haan. "It ensures the ship builders are held responsible for the things they need to be held responsible for."…"
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 javelin98  | 09 Apr 2015 12:28 p.m. PST |
Capital ships come with a warranty? |
| Lion in the Stars | 09 Apr 2015 1:19 p.m. PST |
@Jav98: yeah, once the acceptance trials are over, the shipyard is no longer on the hook for fixing anything. INSURV should be a four-letter word. Been through one on the Kentucky, and that SUCKED. |
| Noble713 | 09 Apr 2015 4:55 p.m. PST |
Capital ships come with a warranty?
Sounds like a warranty that expires as soon as you drive it off the lot. |
| Charlie 12 | 09 Apr 2015 5:59 p.m. PST |
Yeah, the punch list can get awfully long and painful. |
| Lion in the Stars | 10 Apr 2015 5:24 p.m. PST |
Sounds like a warranty that expires as soon as you drive it off the lot. Not quite that bad, but close. Shipyard: "We finished building your new ship!" Navy: *takes it for a test drive*
Navy: "We're not accepting it as "finished" until everything on [list] is fixed to our satisfaction, and we're not paying for her until everything on the list is fixed." Shipyard: *mutters something unprintable*
Shipyard: "OK, everything on the list is fixed, your own people say so. From here on out, you break it, you pay to fix it!" |
| SouthernPhantom | 12 Apr 2015 12:56 p.m. PST |
Looks a lot like an old Essex-class from that beam shot. Considering how the well deck was dumped for more hangar space, it's not really an incorrect comparison. |
| Noble713 | 13 Apr 2015 5:56 a.m. PST |
I went and looked up the dimensions, my curiosity piqued since they do look quite similar. Essex-class was about 10m wider, 10m shorter, and 10,000 tons lighter (full displacement). USS America, in a "light carrier" role, would have a complement of ~20 F-35's compared to 90+ aircraft on an Essex. USS America also costs about 3x as much (3.4 vs 1 billion in adjusted 2011 USD). |
| Lion in the Stars | 13 Apr 2015 12:03 p.m. PST |
The America-class actually carries about as much weight of aircraft as an Essex-class, it's just that modern aircraft are MUCH heavier. F-35As are 70,000lbs at Max Takeoff Weight (-Bs are lighter), while a TBF Avenger or A1 Skyraider weigh in at 18,000lbs at MTOW. So, a single F35 is almost 4x the mass of the heaviest WW2 carrier-based aircraft. The significantly larger cost is mostly due to all the radio and other command-and-control systems installed. |
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