Navy Rushes To Get F-35s on USS JFK; Other Ford Carriers Wait Their Turn

[rangerrebew]

 Navy Rushes To Get F-35s on USS JFK; Other Ford Carriers Wait Their Turn
The service's aircraft carrier boss says the COVID economic slowdown hasn't effected building new carriers -- yet.
By   Paul McLeary on April 22, 2020 at 4:46 PM
 


WASHINGTON: The Navy’s rushed effort to retrofit its newest aircraft carrier to operate the F-35 will create a testbed for the service’s other Ford carriers — which have not been built to fly the fifth generation aircraft — as the Navy juggles work on the remaining three big decks. 

The $11 billion USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) was designed and christened without the capability to fly the 5th generation fighter because of cost caps and the aircraft’s infamously delayed development. Those schedule slippages forced the Navy to design and build the ships while the messy F-35 was still undergoing development.

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/04/navy-rushes-to-get-f-35s-on-uss-jfk-other-ford-carriers-will-wait/

[PeteS in CA]

Since CVN-79 was christened in December, 2019 and is just the second in the class (USS Enterprise, CVN-80, is scheduled to launch in 2025), what with "Other Ford Carriers Wait Their Turn"? If the mods are made first on the Ford, then the JFK will "wait its turn"; if the mods are made first on the JFK, then the Ford will "wait its turn". Big whoop! What's with the article's clickbait-grade headline?