June 24, 2019
Navy Disaster: Why Won't America's New Aircraft Carriers Have F-35s?
What?
by David Axe Follow @daxe on Twitter L
Citing problems with the new supercarrier's nuclear propulsion system and weapons elevators plus minor tweaks testers identified during Ford's post-construction shakedown cruise, James Geurts, the Navy's top acquisitions official, on March 26, 2019 told the U.S. House Armed Services Committee's seapower and projection forces subcommittee that Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia would deliver Ford in October 2019 rather than in July.
The U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier won’t be able to deploy with the service’s newest warplane. At least not at first.
And Congress is unhappy about that, according to Ben Werner at USNI News.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navy-disaster-why-wont-americas-new-aircraft-carriers-have-f-35s-64051
