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    USS Gerald R. Ford: The Navy’s Most Powerful Aircraft Carrier Heads To ‘Shock Trials’

    Hopefully they can get all of the elevators working.

    USS Gerald R. Ford: The Navy’s Most Powerful Aircraft Carrier Heads To ‘Shock Trials’

    Coming Soon: USS Gerald R. Ford Shock Trials

    The supercarrier will tie up at Newport News Shipbuilding’s pier 2 after it conducts its full ship shock trials, which is a standard test that involves setting off high explosives next to the ship to determine if vibration would cause problems. While anything that was shaken loose or damaged will be addressed, the return to port is actually part of Ford’s first “planned incremental availability” (PIA).


    This maintenance period is meant to install the latest updates to equipment and to take care of maintenance work that’s harder to do while the ship is deployed at sea. The updates and upgrades are expected to be completed quickly, in part because the ship has only been undergoing at-sea tests and trials that are meant to certify the carrier’s systems as well as sailor skills.


    However, just as “brand new” computers or smartphones often need to undergo software updates on a regular basis, so too will Ford’s various systems. According to Hampton Roads-based Daily Press, about sixty percent of the work slated for the PIA involves updating and modernizing equipment.


    That includes plugging in updated circuit boards and installing new communications networks and software.


    PIA updates will occur every few years to keep the carrier up to date with the fast-changing electronic devices, software, weapons system controls and communication networks.
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    Still a long way off from a 355 ship Navy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Still a long way off from a 355 ship Navy.
    It takes a while to build ships. And the Navy has to deal with the annual budget process.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    It takes a while to build ships. And the Navy has to deal with the annual budget process.
    And with Democrats running things it will take even longer. I already showed you the number for China and Russia. We are severely lagging behind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    And with Democrats running things it will take even longer. I already showed you the number for China and Russia. We are severely lagging behind.
    Neither Russia nor China has naval personnel with actually combat experience in naval warfare. For more than a generation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Neither Russia nor China has naval personnel with actually combat experience in naval warfare. For more than a generation.
    Hence their play with just sheer numbers.
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    Home»News»Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Completes First Ship Shock Trials



    The first-in-class aircraft carrier was designed using advanced computer modeling methods, testing, and analysis to ensure the ship is hardened to withstand battle conditions, and these shock trials provide data used in validating the shock hardness of the ship.


    The U.S. Navy has conducted FSSTs over several decades, most recently for the Littoral Combat Ships USS Jackson (LCS 6) and USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) in 2016; as well as for the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) in 2008, the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) in 1990, and the guided missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) in 1987. The last aircraft carrier to execute FSST was USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in 1987.

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    The USS Ford is now operational.

    It happened last December, but only announced now.

    The milestone was officially reached on Dec. 22, 2021, when the last advanced weapons elevator was turned over, Capt. Brian Metcalf, the ship’s program manager, told attendees at the Sea Air Space exposition.
    Initial operational capability is an important acquisition milestone that indicates the ship’s capabilities have reached the minimum thresholds required to be operationally useful. In other words, the super carrier that has plagued the Navy with cost overruns and schedule delays for more than a decade now, is finally at a state where the service can use it in a real-world operation.


    The ship is scheduled to deploy in the early fall.
    The 23 new technologies the Navy have integrated onto the Ford, such as the advanced weapons elevators and the electromagnetic aircraft launch system, have received much attention over the years from Pentagon weapons testers and third-party government auditors.
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    USS Gerald R. Ford's Captain On Why The Carrier's New Island Design Works

    The Ford Class has its island 140 feet aft when compared to the Nimitz Class island. Some other nations (that have carriers) have two - one for the captain and one for the air boss.

    USS Gerald R. Ford's Captain On Why The Carrier's New Island Design Works

    For Navy Capt. Paul “Paulie” Lanzilotta, 140 feet makes a world of difference.

    That’s how far the island superstructure of the $13 billion USS Gerald R. Fordhas been moved to the aft on the 1,106-foot long vessel, which leads a new class of aircraft carriers, compared to what's found on the previous Nimitz class.


    Lanzilotta, who took command of the Ford a little more than a year ago, told The War Zone Tuesday that the design greatly increases the efficiency of launching aircraft, but also presents some challenges as well.


    The reason that extra real estate in front of the island superstructure is so valuable, said Lanzilotta, is because it allows more room for aircraft to line up and prepare to launch.


    The Navy uses “cyclic flight operations to continue to generate sorties over many hours a day,” said Lanzilotta, speaking to The War Zone after wrapping up a panel on the history of aircraft carriers at the Sea Air Space symposium. “And we do that by launching the cycle and then recovering that cycle.”
    There is, however, a minor downside to moving the island closer to the stern of the carrier, said Lanzilotta. “From a ship handling perspective, being further away from the bow kind of increases the shadow zone forward,” he said. This refers to the blindspot of sorts to the front of the ship that is exacerbated by how far the island is set back on the Ford class.

    That’s a challenge that “we just manage, organically,” he said, “whether it's a sensor forward, to watchstanders that are forward, and additional assets that we naturally have with us all the time, like our helicopters, and our security boats and stuff like that... I’m amazed by how well we’re able to move in the narrow channel in San Diego Bay. It’s a great bay, but a busy one."
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    The USS Ford's home from its maiden cruise

    On its maiden cruise, the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford sailed 9,275 nautical miles, launched 1,250 sorties, blew out more than 78 tons of ordnance, and completed 13 underway replenishments. To US Navy leaders, that all added up to one outstanding voyage.


    In a prepared statement released as the flagship flattop returned to its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday, Nov. 26, the carrier strike group commander, Rear Adm. Greg Huffman, called his air and warship crews “awe-inspiring” during a tour that began Oct. 4 and took them to the North Atlantic.


    “This deployment laid a strong foundation for the strike group, created momentum to carry us forward for future operations, and has prepared us to answer our nation’s call when needed,” he said.


    While Ford was still underway, its air crews flew home to their bases in Virginia on Nov. 25, but one squadron had keep jetting more than 2,100 nautical miles west.

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    On its maiden cruise, the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford sailed 9,275 nautical miles, launched 1,250 sorties, blew out more than 78 tons of ordnance, and completed 13 underway replenishments. To US Navy leaders, that all added up to one outstanding voyage.
    In a prepared statement released as the flagship flattop returned to its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday, Nov. 26, the carrier strike group commander, Rear Adm. Greg Huffman, called his air and warship crews “awe-inspiring” during a tour that began Oct. 4 and took them to the North Atlantic.
    “This deployment laid a strong foundation for the strike group, created momentum to carry us forward for future operations, and has prepared us to answer our nation’s call when needed,” he said.
    While Ford was still underway, its air crews flew home to their bases in Virginia on Nov. 25, but one squadron had keep jetting more than 2,100 nautical miles west.




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