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USS Ford forced to withdraw due to laundry fire and toilet sabotage [video]
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoThere appears to be a SPoF design flaw where there's a single vacuum line serving many fixtures and the design doesn't appear to be robust enough for real world conditions.
- rbanffy 7mo agoIt’s the best ship. One like the world has never seen. It’s huge. And it has great toilets. The best toilets in the world. They are beautiful.
- rbanffy 7mo agoBurn karma burn!
- burnt-resistor 7mo agoDirections unclear: That was the uncleaned lint traps in the laundry room. Ford crew will have to do their laundry in Crete or back at base when they're swapped out for a relief crew since they've been on boat almost a year.
- Sabinus 7mo agoThe sabotage is interesting. Just a protest about an extended deployment in an old boat, or a broader statement about dissatisfaction with an unprepared Middle East forever war?
- yareally 7mo agoIt's actually the newest carrier in the Navy