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Jura The idiot

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6 June 2019
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US Navy completes developmental tests of CVN 78’s SSDS combat system
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The latest generation of the US Navy’s USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) aircraft carrier’s Ship Self Defense System (SSDS) integrated combat system (ICS) has completed its final developmental test.

In partnership with the US Navy, SSDS contractor Raytheon performed the test from the navy’s unmanned Self Defense Test Ship off the coast of California.

The test involved simulating a raid scenario that the lead vessel of the Gerald R Ford-class CVN 78 may encounter following its deployment.

During the exercise, the SSDS ICS located, classified, tracked and engaged two anti-ship missile surrogate targets.

Raytheon SSDS programme manager Mike Fabel said: “This successful dual-target test demonstrates the maturity of the Ship Self Defense System ICS and paves the way for operational testing to begin.

“SSDS is a critical capability that enables CVN 78 to defend herself and her crew against current and emerging threats.”

Completion of the final developmental test leads the way for US Navy operational testing.

Raytheon’s SSDS features a dual-band radar (DBR), cooperative engagement capability (CEC) that validates and processes the DBR data. In addition, it has an SSDS to process the CEC data and determine the appropriate engagement ranges, as well as evolved SeaSparrow missile and rolling airframe missile.

The combat system developed for Gerald R Ford has successfully engaged three targets over the course of its first two test exercises.

In February, the navy performed the
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of the SSDS ICS. The system successfully engaged an unmanned aerial vehicle target off the coast of California.

The combat system is integrated on several US carriers and amphibious ships, including CVN, LSD, LPD, LHA and LHD classes.

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding division
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, worth nearly $13bn, to the US Navy in 2017.

The second carrier
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is expected to be delivered in 2020. In January this year, a
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was awarded for the detail design and construction of USS Enterprise (CVN 80) and yet-to-be-named CVN 81.
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Obi Wan Russell

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Another of the RNs flat tops... sort of. RFA Argus, despite her conversion to 'Primary Casualty Reception Vessel' (Hospital ship), still retains her original role as an Aviation Training ship, and provides valuable at sea experience:25d87854557445e388daa9c92a7f85d2-0x0.jpg 61951141_591870651217383_8933061006746189824_n.jpg 45158000g.jpg
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

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Jura said:
am wondering if they can be folded?
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Long ago in a magical time called the 1980’s Boeing shopped to the USMC a variant of the AH64 called the Sea Apache. The Marines chose not to buy.

When the British were shopping for what would become the WAH64 Mk1 Apache. They like the Marines needed it to be amphibious. Boeing designers came up with a folding rotor mast kit for the Apache. Which can be seen in this image being pulled from a C171AC91810-529E-489F-B0DB-9CBD99076CE0.png
TE rule of thumb if it fits in a C130 or C17 it fits in a carrier.
 
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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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has there Ford Class launched any aircraft from its EMALS?

if not when is it expected

and when is Ford Class going to launch F35 using EMALS?

the island of the John F Kennedy has been lifted into place its 90% done

this is the 2nd Ford Class
 
TerraN_EmpirE

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asif iqbal said:
has there Ford Class launched any aircraft from its EMALS?
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The Answer is YES.
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asif iqbal said:
and when is Ford Class going to launch F35 using EMALS?
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First it has to enter the fleet. Last I read plans were sometime next year F35C will start to appear on Nimitz class boats.
NAVAIR has to iron out the logistics issues of the F35 for carrier ops. Then comes a certifying F35C for carrier EMALS.

asif iqbal said:
the island of the John F Kennedy has been lifted into place its 90% done

this is the 2nd Ford Class
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If all goes well then by the time she is done EMALS and F35C will be ready for each other.
 
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asif iqbal said:
has there Ford Class launched any aircraft from its EMALS?

if not when is it expected

and when is Ford Class going to launch F35 using EMALS?

the island of the John F Kennedy has been lifted into place its 90% done

this is the 2nd Ford Class
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Jura said:
now I watched VIDEO: USS Gerald R. Ford Conducts First Arrested Landing, Catapult Launch
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TerraN_EmpirE

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Nimitz and Ford Carriers Need Upgrades to Deploy With F-35Cs
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June 6, 2019 3:37 PM
Currently, the Navy does not have an aircraft carrier — either Ford-class or Nimitz-class — that can support the service’s most advanced fighters for a full deployment, service officials told USNI News on Thursday.

Earlier this week, lawmakers expressed their frustration with the Navy for accepting delivery of Ford-class carriers before they can accommodate deploying with F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, while considering the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act. But the Navy currently doesn’t have a Nimitz-class carrier that can deploy with F-35Cs either.

“The Nimitz-class and Ford-class aircraft carriers, by design, can operate with F-35Cs, however, there are modifications to both carrier classes that are required in order to fully employ the capabilities of the F-35s and enable them to be more effective on a full-length deployment,” Capt. Daniel Hernandez, a Navy spokesman, said in an email to USNI News.

The modifications required to make each aircraft carrier class able to deploy with F-35Cs don’t require a fundamental redesign of either class. Hernandez described the modifications as involving work to support the long-term deployment of F-35Cs, such as adding classified spaces to the carriers and installing more robust jet blast deflectors.

Each class of carrier is currently able to launch and recover F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, the variant designed for catapult launching and arrested landing on carriers. Without the carrier modifications, the ships are unable to support an F-35C for more than a short visit.

“These F-35C modifications for CVN-78 and CVN-79 are currently scheduled for a future post-delivery modernization maintenance period that will occur prior to the planned F-35C operations on those carriers,” Hernandez said. “This has always been the plan for CVN-78 and CVN-79 over several budget cycles. CVN-80 and CVN-81 will be constructed with those modifications made during construction and will not require a post-delivery modification.”

Members of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee sought to speed up the Navy’s modification schedule by including language in their FY 2020 NDAA mark
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Ford-class carrier, John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) until the carrier can deploy F-35Cs.

There are no technical difficulties involving either the aircraft or the catapults and recover systems aboard the carriers that are preventing the F-35C from deploying.

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aboard a Nimitz-class carrier occurred on Nov. 3, 2014.

The Navy plans to make the needed carrier modifications during the next several years as carriers are available to receive the modifications. The Navy’s first F-35C squadron, VFA-147, is expected to deploy aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in 2021, USNI News previously reported.
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at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton, Wash., undergoing a $34.3 million dry-docking planned incremental availability, expected to be completed in July 2020, according to the Navy
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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Nimitz and Ford Carriers Need Upgrades to Deploy With F-35Cs
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Hernandez described the modifications as involving work to support the long-term deployment of F-35Cs, such as adding classified spaces to the carriers and installing more robust jet blast deflectors.
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I have been aware of the issue of needing to build classified space to accommodate the ISR data that are vacuumed by the F-35 sensors. It was in the context of coalition AOC where not all countries or personnel have access to certain classified materials. Essentially the ISR results within the F-35, or at least a portion of it, is classified at high level and compartmentalised for security reasons, both within and among nations. This also pertains to specific F-35-derived ISR results. Hence, sharing this information outside the F-35 environment to support Air C2 – ISR integration will face security classification restraints or could, in some cases, even be prohibited outside a Special Access Program Facility (SAPF) or Secret Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). I would suspect the carriers would have to build SAPE or SCIF like facility. Operationally it will be a bigger problem. In order to safeguard information security, consideration must be given in creation of any gateway, cross security domain solution or relay solution that facilitates sharing F-35 originated ISR results. This in turn may be in direct conflict with the need to the real-time distribution of ISR results and sharing of situational awareness within a coalition AOC and other units to support enhancing Air C2 – ISR integration.
 
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