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Title: Navy makes next 2 Ford-class aircraft carriers 'more lethal'
Post by: rangerrebew on February 20, 2019, 01:57:10 pm

Navy makes next 2 Ford-class aircraft carriers 'more lethal'

By , Kris Osborn

Published February 19, 2019
Warrior Maven

The Navy is making lethality enhancing “modifications” to its next several new Ford-class aircraft carriers, to include integrated “digital shipbuilding” and weapons-oriented adjustments intended to further increase overall aircraft carrier combat effectiveness.

The initiatives, according to Navy statements, involve specific aircraft carrier modifications intended to, among other things, improve the maritime warfighting potential of the soon-to-arrive F-35C and MQ-25 Stingray drone aerial refueler.

These now-underway modifications, which Navy developers specify do not included changes to the F-35C or Stingray themselves, are in part intended to step up aircraft carrier attack abilities on the open sea, made manifest by the Navy’s recent a cost-saving two-carrier buy.



https://www.foxnews.com/tech/navy-makes-next-two-ford-class-aircraft-carriers-more-lethal-with-new-modifications (https://www.foxnews.com/tech/navy-makes-next-two-ford-class-aircraft-carriers-more-lethal-with-new-modifications)

Title: Re: Navy makes next 2 Ford-class aircraft carriers 'more lethal'
Post by: Fishrrman on February 21, 2019, 01:17:22 am

Will they have catapults and ammo elevators that actually work...?

Title: Re: Navy makes next 2 Ford-class aircraft carriers 'more lethal'
Post by: Bill Cipher on February 21, 2019, 01:25:03 am

Quote from: Fishrrman on February 21, 2019, 01:17:22 am

Will they have catapults and ordinance elevators that actually work...?

Maybe they’ll be retrofitted with giant elastic slingshots.