| Tango01 | 12 Feb 2019 3:47 p.m. PST |
….Lots of Problems "Four Fords are in service, under construction or under contract. It's unrealistic for the Navy to halt the program. But in light of the problems the lead ship in the class has experienced, it's possible program-wide costs further could grow and schedules could continue to slip. The U.S. Navy is doubling down on its new Ford-class supercarriers. In February 2019 the Navy paid Virginia shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls $15 USD billion to begin work on the third and fourth Fords. Buying two carriers at once could help the Navy finally to achieve its goal of having 12 carriers in service at all times, although under the worst-case scenario it might take the fleet until the 2060s to do so…."
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| Lion in the Stars | 12 Feb 2019 11:57 p.m. PST |
A new-design ship has problems? In other news, water is wet. |
| emckinney | 13 Feb 2019 10:18 a.m. PST |
Equally troubling, since EMALS is plugged into the shipwide electrical grid, maintenance crews cannot isolate the system during operations in order quickly to fix it. If EMALS failed during combat operations, the ship effectively would have to shut down for repairs. "The process for electrically isolating equipment is time-consuming," the CRS explained. "Spinning down the EMALS motor/generators takes 1.5 hours by itself. The inability to readily electrically isolate equipment precludes EMALS maintenance during flight operations." (EMALS = Electromagnetic Launch System = catapults) |
| Lion in the Stars | 13 Feb 2019 11:49 a.m. PST |
Yeah, whoever designed that EMALS isolation procedure should be forced to do it while the ship burns around them. |
| Tango01 | 13 Feb 2019 12:08 p.m. PST |
Dude…! (smile)
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 javelin98  | 13 Feb 2019 12:12 p.m. PST |
On the other hand, nobody seems to talk about the Fnord-class carriers. Weird. |
 Saber6  | 13 Feb 2019 2:15 p.m. PST |
Javelin98: "just stare at this spinning disc.." |
| Weirdo | 13 Feb 2019 2:51 p.m. PST |
Of course the lead ship is having problems, that's what it's there for! They build Ford, and problems that arise during construction and early service get fixed, and influence Kennedy's design. Issues that show up over time and early issues with Kennedy get fixed and influence Enterprise. By the time they start building Richard M Nixon and C.R. Doritos, those ships should work just fine. This is why I've got no beef with the Zumwalts(aside from the ammo thing), or the LCSes(aside from the fact that they built so many of the damned things before learning any lessons from the lead ships). |
| StarCruiser | 13 Feb 2019 7:43 p.m. PST |
F.O.R.D. – Fix Or Repair Daily – Found On Road Dead – F…ing Old Rebuilt Dodge (etc…) |
| Tango01 | 14 Feb 2019 11:51 a.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 16 Feb 2019 12:06 p.m. PST |
@StarCruiser: First On Race Day.  Though I'm sure that Fix Or Repair Daily has already been appropriated for the USS Ford's nickname. |
