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Costs soar for new USS Ford, an aircraft carrier hobbled by flaws in launching, landing planes
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Costs soar for new USS Ford, an aircraft carrier hobbled by flaws in launching, landing planes
By Tony Capaccio
Bloomberg
Jun 15, 2017 Updated Jun 15, 2017
The newest and costliest U.S. aircraft carrier, praised by President Donald Trump and delivered to the Navy on May 31 with fanfare, has been dogged by trouble with fundamentals: launching jets from its deck and catching them when they land.
Now it turns out that the system used to capture jets landing on the USS Gerald R. Ford ballooned in cost, tripling to $961 million from $301 million, according to Navy documents obtained by Bloomberg News.
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