$120,000,000,000: The Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Navy Nightmare
Story by Brandon J. Weichert • 5h
Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the most advanced and expensive warship in the U.S. Navy, is a technological marvel carrying 90 aircraft and equipped with a nuclear power plant. However, its $13 billion price tag and susceptibility to modern anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) systems, particularly from China, raise concerns about its effectiveness in future conflicts.
-Critics argue that the U.S. should invest in smaller, stealthier, and faster platforms like submarines, drones, hypersonic missiles, and space-based weapons instead of relying on expensive carriers that are increasingly vulnerable to modern threats.
USS Gerald R. Ford: A $13 Billion Marvel Facing Modern Warfare Obsolescence
It's one of the most beautiful, technologically sophisticated weapons platform ever devised by Man. Carrying a whopping 90 fixed wing aircraft, including the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, the Boeing EA-18G Growler, the Grumman C-2 Greyhound, the Northrop-Grumman E-2 Hawkeye, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter craft, as well as an assortment of helicopters as well as unmanned vehicles, the U.S.S Gerald R. Ford, the first of its class, is a modern marvel. The leviathan can carry a crew complement of more than 4,500 people. It has a nuclear power plant that can allow for the ship to enjoy extended deployments.
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