Aircraft Carriers III

May 27, 2018
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"... The ship is scheduled to arrive at Newport News in mid-July for the correction of remaining problems and installation of combat systems. It’s expected to remain there for about a year."
New $12.9 billion warship heads back to Va., already needs fixes
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USS GERALD R
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, delivered May 2017 & commissioned 22 July 2017, moved Sunday back to her building yard at
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to begin a planned year-long maintenance and upgrade period.
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notes she's spent a total of 81 days at sea. (foto 4/17)

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USS GERALD R
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, delivered May 2017 & commissioned 22 July 2017, moved Sunday back to her building yard at
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to begin a planned year-long maintenance and upgrade period.
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notes she's spent a total of 81 days at sea. (foto 4/17)

Just in case the uninformed among our members did not know;

USS George H W Bush (CVN 77) was commissioned on 10 January 2009 and returned to Northrup-Grumman shipyard from 18 June 2009 to 17 January 2010 for Post shakedown availability and Restricted availability.
 
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notes she's spent a total of 81 days at sea. (foto 4/17)

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USS Gerald R. Ford enters HII yard for post-shakedown repairs
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The US Navy’s most expensive ship ever, aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), arrived at Huntington Ingalls Industries – Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia, July 14 to begin its post-shakedown availability (PSA) period.

The PSA will be a yearlong maintenance and upgrade period after the ship operated at sea for 81 days through eight independent steaming events.

During this overhaul, Gerald R. Ford, HII will install remaining combat systems, complete deferred work and correct remaining discrepancies identified during sea trials and shakedown. The longest sequence of events, or “critical path” for this PSA/SRA period are advanced weapons elevator construction and advanced arresting gear upgrades.

Following the PSA/SRA, USS Gerald R. Ford will conduct further trials and testing, including full-ship shock trials, prior to its first deployment. The ship will work up for deployment in parallel with its initial operational testing and evaluation.

The overhaul work follows the ship’s successful completion of its post-delivery test and evaluation.

Since first getting underway on her own power April 8, 2017, Ford has undertaken 10 underway evolutions and completed all of the testing required prior to beginning the PSA.

“My team has completed a very important phase in Ford’s lifecycle,” said Ford’s Commanding Officer, Capt. Richard McCormack. “The shakedown period was an opportunity for the Navy to run the ship through a rigorous set of operational tasks and assess her performance.”

“We now enter a post-shakedown availability period to incorporate several design changes to correct performance deficiencies and complete the installation of other systems needed to ensure the ship, her embarked airwing and the strike group are ready to support national tasking when called upon by the president.”

During the underway Ford sailors tested fleet’s first shipboard electromagnetic aircraft launching system (EMALS). Ford’s Air Department, combined with the efforts of Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding and Naval Air Systems Command Joint Test Group, successfully executed complete system testing events for all 13 redesigned aircraft launch and recovery equipment weapon systems, including the first 747 shipboard landings – the first coming only six days following the ship’s commissioning – utilizing the advanced arresting gear (AAG), against a plan of approximately 400.

Ford’s Operations Department synchronized with Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3), CVW-8, Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Atlantic, Helicopter Maritime Strike Wing Atlantic, and numerous PMS-378 test organizations to complete 454 mishap-free rotary and fixed-wing sorties and 1,173 flight hours. The crew also executed 25 air defense and surface tracking exercises, the initial structural test firing of the close-in weapons system (CIWS), and all development testing of the integrated combat system.

Another notable system that separates the ship from her Nimitz-class predecessors is the Navy’s first Plasma Arc Waste Destruction System (PAWDS), which allows Ford to dispose of trash in an environmentally safe manner. Ford’s Engineering team oversaw major developmental milestones, including the safe installation, integration, and operation of the system. Overcoming system challenges consistent with any ‘first’ system, the engineering team’s efforts resulted in system improvements, serving to increase overall system availability from less than five percent to more than 90 percent.
 

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This is not unusual at all...especially fior first in class vessels.

They will now address any issues they found during those 81 days at sea...and that is a good, and perfectly normal thing to do.

This is an all new class with a new propulsion system, new catapults, new trap mechanisms, an all new island and pri-fly, new deck arrangements, and a new hanger arrngement.

They will take all they have learned and improve all of that so that as the other carriers in the class come out, they can benefit from this initial kowledge.
 

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This is not unusual at all...especially fior first in class vessels.

They will now address any issues they found during those 81 days at sea...and that is a good, and perfectly normal thing to do.

This is an all new class with a new propulsion system, new catapults, new trap mechanisms, an all new island and pri-fly, new deck arrangements, and a new hanger arrngement.

They will take all they have learned and improve all of that so that as the other carriers in the class come out, they can benefit from this initial kowledge.
YEs, and that is the F/A-18E/F...which will make up a majority of the air wing to begin with.

Ultimately they will carry:

F/A-18E Air Superiority Fighter
F/A-18F Strile Fighter
F-35C Strike Fighter
E-2C/D AEW
MVC-22 COD
SH-60 Helos

...and they will test each one through the EMALS on ground and then on the carrier before final approval.
 
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would you please translate from the Pentagonese

"The National Defense Strategy directs us to be operationally unpredictable while remaining strategically predictable. As such, select units from the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Carrier Strike Group (CSG) will return to Norfolk, Virginia, this week - a direct reflection of the dynamic force employment concept and the inherent maneuverability and flexibility of the U.S. Navy."

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Press Statement on Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group Operations
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Story Number: NNS180716-23Release Date: 7/16/2018 6:00:00 PM
 
would you please translate from the Pentagonese

"The National Defense Strategy directs us to be operationally unpredictable while remaining strategically predictable. As such, select units from the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Carrier Strike Group (CSG) will return to Norfolk, Virginia, this week - a direct reflection of the dynamic force employment concept and the inherent maneuverability and flexibility of the U.S. Navy."

etc.; it's
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... Jim Mattis’ ‘Dynamic Force Employment’ just got real for the US Navy
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is returning to Norfolk after just three months on deployment, a dramatic shift from the Navy’s standard seven-month deployment and a move that has been signaled at the highest levels of the military as the Navy moves to rebuild readiness and surge capacity.

The decision to cut the deployment short is in line with a concept pushed by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Joe Dunford known as “dynamic force employment,” which calls on the military to be more agile and less predictable. Truman’s abbreviated deployment to Europe, which also cut out the
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, is a radical step toward the ultimate goal of restoring readiness so forces can be ready for a major conflict on short notice.

In a statement, new Fleet Forces Command head Adm. Christopher Grady said the order for Truman to return to home port was a “direct reflection of the dynamic force employment concept, and the inherent maneuverability and flexibility of the U.S. Navy.”

Grady also stressed that the move had nothing to do with the readiness of the ships in the strike group.

“The Truman Carrier Strike Group has had an incredibly successful three months in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility,” Grady said. “The ship accomplished every objective established for its crew, from striking ISIS in Syria to expanding partnerships and exercising with our friends and allies.


“Let me be clear – all returning units are 100 percent mission capable and will remain in the sustainment phase of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan, which means they will sustain warfighting readiness and be ready to surge forward or redeploy when called upon.”

In Navy-speak, the sustainment phase means that the ship will be held at deployment levels manning, training and general readiness so that it can surge on short notice in a crisis.

Dynamic force employment is a concept that ties in with the National Defense Strategy, and while explaining it in hearings Mattis has put emphasis on what it means for the Navy.

“The way you do this is [to] ensure that preparation for great power competition drives not simply a rotational schedule that allows me to tell you, three years from now, which aircraft carrier will be where in the world,” Mattis told House lawmakers earlier this year. “When we send them out, it may be for a shorter deployment. There will be three carriers in the South China Sea today, and then, two weeks from now, there’s only one there, and two of them are in the Indian Ocean.

“They’ll be home at the end of a 90-day deployment. They will not have spent eight months at sea, and we are going to have a force more ready to surge and deal with the high-end warfare as a result, without breaking the families, the maintenance cycles — we’ll actually enhance the training time.”

The Navy’s maintenance cycles have been disrupted badly in recent years as increasing demands and declining force structure pushed the Navy to the brink with deployments extending as long as 10 months or more.

Analysts who have looked at what Mattis wants to do have raised questions about whether the Navy’s current readiness cycle, known as the optimized fleet response plan, can support the kind of flexibility Mattis is looking for.
 
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