Aircraft Carriers III

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Jura.."cutbacks" is American slang for less money...$$$ or when something, usually funding, is reduced in scale.

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INDIAN OCEAN (Feb. 1, 2019) An F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 14, prepares to launch from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Indian Ocean, Feb. 1, 2019. The John C. Stennis is deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Skyler Okerman)

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INDIAN OCEAN (Feb. 1, 2019) An F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 151, launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Indian Ocean, Feb. 1, 2019. The John C. Stennis is deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Skyler Okerman)
 
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Jura said:
gee "... crews still have to power down the entire EMALS or AAG system in order to troubleshoot problems, instead of being able to just cut off electricity to specific components."
Navy's Newest Carrier Needs Critical Updates To Launch And Recover Aircraft With Certain Loadouts

February 14, 2019
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This is one of those that in retrospect is hard to conceive how such a critical piece in a design can slipped through design review. The irony is the EMAL and AAG were supposedly the key drivers in sortie generation increase. If they can't sort this out, the USS Ford is not mission capable; not coupled with the MTBF numbers that these systems are experiencing. All these problems come with a price tag of $13 Billion which is twice the cost of the last Nimitz. .
 
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It never gets old though!

People misinterpret what Top Gun is though, it's not a war movie, it's a gay romance between Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer... Quentin Tarantino was spot on with his analysis!
 
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Yeah that story basically sums up the basic arguments really well.
One other argument I have heard is that basically one of the main reasons why the Navy was so dead set against the F-111 was its large size. Yet the F-14 was not smaller.

I am not surprised the Navy fighter pilots did not like it since the F-111 was basically designed as a long range platform. So agility was a least concern.
Basically as a bomber. Its interceptor capabilities were rather limited.

I did not know it was the Navy who chose it to be a side-by-side seater though. That is particularly weird and like the article said was a cause for substantial issues.
Well not as much the side-by-side seating but the capsule escape mechanism.

The F-14 airframe was much superior but it was also a later design which uses technology which likely was not available at the time.

The F-111 had many crashes in the early program it took them a long time to get the airframe in safe flyable state.
 
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