TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
did you ignore
The technologys were new. Yes but how it is supposed to be employed? Everyone of these ships has new technologies added to it. 14 new ones seems impressive but it still is a carrier it's not something that so fundamentally changes the world we live in. transformational, revolutionary quantum leaps are you wishing to spew Buzz words and try to claim that the concept is so fundamentally flawed that we should scrap the whole thing and go back."In 2002, the Department of Defense opted to attempt to achieve a revolutionary approach in introducing new technologies on the lead ship. The Navy sought to research, develop, and produce 14 critical technologies aimed at facilitating CVN 78’s capability and efficiency gains."
June 2017 p. 11 (16 of 56 in PDF)
Like the Seawolf or the Zimwalt class. When it seems like trouble scrap it! Start with what works... except that doesn't work.
My point is and remains that even had they not changed the class name. Most if not all of those changes would have happened.
That cost point I was trying to indicate is just part of a trend. 7+Billion for construction of the ship is only part of the investment made in a carrier or any new technologies.
The 14 new technologies you point to are part of what makes that carrier yes but do you really think that Nimitz class ships didn't have there own huge cost issues when the Nimitz entered the fleet? Actually the Nimitz was an attempt at fixing the problems of Enterprise. She was supposed to start a run of her class of carrier but she was plagued by more issues than Ford has now or ever had and most were in the reactor.
They scrapped plans to build more of her and built more Kitty Hawk class and the JFK until they decided to try it again after an extensive redesign that was the Nimitz.
Well what do you want Admiral Jura? Nimitz 5.1? Send the billions spent back to the yard, retool to build Nimitz again and then guess what? The same tech gets in those ships the same price tags.
I get that, those changes are to the deck and lay out meant to speed up operations.Actually the Ford class is quite different from a Nimitz class. A Ford class has only three aircraft elevators. The island is further aft than on a Nimitz. Bomb assembly is right under the flight deck on the 03 level. On a Nimitz bomb assembly is in the first forward and aft magazines on the 4th deck. These were the former special weapons magazines.