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according to Military.com (dated Jan 12, 2017)
Navy Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford Could Be Delivered in April
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has made "significant progress" on the
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Gerald R. Ford and the first-in-class ship could be delivered in April, a Navy spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The Navy has scheduled sea trials in March and April, said Capt. Thurraya Kent. Delivery to the Navy would take place in April, pending the results of sea trials.

The ship has faced numerous technological hurdles that have led to delays and cost overruns. Its original delivery date was September 2015.

But overall the ship is now 99 percent complete, while testing on electronics, propulsion and hull mechanical/electrical is also more than 90 percent finished, Kent said.

The ship is pier side at Newport News Shipbuilding, the only shipyard that builds nuclear-powered aircraft carriers for the Navy. The shipyard is a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries.

The $12.9 billion ship, packed with new technology, has had an on-again, off-again delivery schedule. The Navy, the shipyard and major subcontractors have worked to overcome problems with electromagnetic catapults designed to launch aircraft from the flight deck, as well as new arresting gear that would allow them to safely land.

New weapons elevators and radar systems have also caught the attention of Pentagon weapons testers.

Finally, a troublesome electrical issue surfaced in June and continued throughout the year.

In June 2016, a memo from J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation, cited unresolved concerns about key systems.

In October, an underdog presidential candidate backed a plan to boost the Navy fleet by a whopping 30 percent. That candidate is now the incoming commander-in-chief, and it's still his plan.

The Navy has since added a significant amount of detail to President-elect

In October, an underdog presidential candidate backed a plan to boost the Navy fleet by a whopping 30 percent. That candidate is now the incoming commander-in-chief, and it's still his plan.

The Navy has since added a significant amount of detail to President-elect Donald Trump's plan for a 350-ship.

In September, the Navy backed away from a planned November delivery date and declined to predict when it would be delivered.

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, Vice Adm. Tom Moore said the Navy was making progress isolating and fixing the
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, which has been blamed on a defective component. He also expressed optimism that other systems, including the advanced arresting gear, were moving forward.

At the time, Moore predicted the Navy would have a delivery date certain by the end of 2016.
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Jura said:
according to Military.com (dated Jan 12, 2017)
Navy Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford Could Be Delivered in April

The Navy has scheduled sea trials in March and April, said Capt. Thurraya Kent

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FINALLY! 'bout time too.

Good to hear something official...and I cannot wait to se her take to the sea.

She's 1st in class of a very progressive and leap ahead class of ships. I expect it will take her two years to get to IOC as she works up all the new porcedures, exercises, maintenance schedules, etc. for all the new stuff.

New Reactors
New Catapults
New Arresting System
New Electric System
New Armament
New Deck lauout
New Flyops
New Island
New munition.weapons elevators

But then they are going to have something aweome to behold.

Right in time for the JFK which will be launching about that time.

Then will come the new USS Enterprise, CVN-80. I may not make it that far boys...but I sincerely hpe to live to see her (the Enterprise) launched.
 
Jura The idiot

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Mar 18, 2016
Jura said:
it's just not to forget one-year-old aircraft-weight-and-Ford-deck-related discussion:
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a = v*v/(2*S)
so for v=145 knots (number from AFB's post) and S=90 m (the deck length) a is 2.94g
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https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/aircraft-carriers-ii-closed-to-posting.t3125/page-534#post-334315
and posts around this one ...
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... something I recalled after I had noticed

"Furthermore, in its report for FY 2016, the US Department of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOTE) revealed that Gerald R. Ford’s new electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS), which uses electromagnetic technology to launch aircraft from the deck of naval aircraft carriers, put excessive airframe stress on planes launching from the flight deck, preventing the navy from operating F/A-18A-F and EA-18G aircraft from the carrier."

inside After repeated delays, US newest aircraft carrier to be delivered to navy in April
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FORBIN

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Nice stuff, aicrafts and ships !
During composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX) 2016 off the coast of Southern California.

More long for fans :)
 
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FORBIN

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I love this one on many ! one of the more nice with 360° views with the 5 combattants in line maazzinng ! :p
STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR (June 13, 2016)

Awesome
USN Gibraltar.jpg
 
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Jura The idiot

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in one of my rants
Sep 1, 2016
Jura said:
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(I guess the answer would be it's because 15 or ten years ago concurrency had to be incorporated into the design, as back than only so called transformational projects had a chance to get funded, revolutionary changes to the battlefield of the future transforming it into higher dimension, LCS, F-35, ...)
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now "The Navy is paying the price for attempting to incorporate too many new technologies at once into a new class of ship. The Ford is an example of how short-lived strategic themes such as “
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” can create long-term problems. The Ford carrier,
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were all shaped in large part by services’ need to get them approved by the Bush administration, which was only interested in pursuing transformational new technologies at the time." ...
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"The Navy is paying the price for attempting to incorporate too many new technologies at once into a new class of ship. The Ford is an example of how short-lived strategic themes such as “
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” can create long-term problems. The Ford carrier,
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were all shaped in large part by services’ need to get them approved by the Bush administration, which was only interested in pursuing transformational new technologies at the time." ...
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I agree..Now this is a new day.. a new regime will take over in one week.. Ok Mr Trump..let's get it fixed. Let's get systems that work.
 
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