On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck

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On Costliest U.S. Warship Ever, Navy Can’t Get Munitions on Deck
By Anthony Capaccio
July 30, 2019, 4:00 AM EDT Updated on July 31, 2019, 3:06 PM EDT

    ‘Essentially, the ship can’t deploy,’ lawmaker Luria says

    Weapons can’t be lifted to the deck of USS Gerald R. Ford

 

Only two of 11 elevators needed to lift munitions to the deck of the U.S. Navy’s new $13 billion aircraft carrier have been fully installed, according to a Navy veteran who serves on a key House committee.

“I don’t see an end in sight right now” to getting all the elevators working on the USS Gerald R. Ford, the costliest warship ever, Democratic Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia said in an interview. The ship was supposed to be delivered with the Advanced Weapons Elevators, which are moved by magnets rather than cables, working in May 2017.

It’s another setback for contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. -- and for the Navy, which had said in December it planned to complete installation and testing of all 11 elevators before the Ford completed its post-delivery shakedown phase this month, with at least half certified for operation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-30/flawed-elevators-on-13-billion-carrier-miss-another-deadline

[PeteS in CA]

Only two of 11 elevators needed to lift munitions to the deck ... have been fully installed ...

Given that first sentence, it's safe to say that a very real problem has been exaggerated some.

Between the new-technology catapult and this new-technology elevator system, it looks like the Navy tried to bring too much immature technology into a new class of carrier too soon.

[truth_seeker]

Another instance, of going backwards with "competencies"

This that we used to do very well,

Designand build new things, like Railroad systems in California

It will not surprise me that if we undertake going to the moon again, it will take much longer, and we will crash and/or kill some astronauts, and maybe call it off so we can feed more illegal transgender immigrants from Somalia.