The US Navy is having sailors train on an ineffective aircraft carrier weapon it's getting rid of
Ryan Pickrell
The US Navy is still training sailors aboard a handful of the service's Nimitz-class aircraft carriers to use the anti-torpedo system it plans to rip out, The War Zone reports.
The Anti-Torpedo Torpedo Defense System, part of the Surface Ship Torpedo Defense system, is unreliable at best, a Pentagon report concluded earlier this year.
The Navy recently released photos of training from the end of July that showed sailors aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower training with the system.
Naval Sea Systems Command says that as long as the system is on the ship, sailors will be spending time training to operate it in order to maintain their qualifications for deployment.
https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-trains-sailors-on-a-weapon-it-plans-to-toss-2019-8
