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navy doesn't seem to care (see USS Ford)

• adventured 5y ago
  The US Navy has a lot of active carriers and few superpower-scale threats, so they're taking an opportunity to experiment (USS Ford) and can afford to do it (for now). It seems like the right thing to do while they can. Ford is the largest warship ever constructed, it's not very surprising they might have problems with a new class.
• jasonwatkinspdx 5y ago
  The navy was dragged into that against their preference by Rumsfeld and the rest of the "Revolution in Military Affairs" people. The original plan was for the first Ford class ships to use conventional catapults, etc, while the new stuff was developed and refined in parallel, to be integrated once it was proven ready. That wasn't fast enough for the Revolution folks, who insisted that the most aggressive timeline possible be followed. Nearly everything those people touched has turned into a disaster, costing tax payers billions.