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Chitchat Get ready for the new Gerald R. Ford-class super carrier! China can't catch up!

kryonlight

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Why China and Russia Fear America's New Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers

[video=youtube;5nC4KhQQLuw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nC4KhQQLuw[/video]

In 2009, the U.S. Navy finally began construction of the first new type of aircraft carrier in nearly thirty-five years. Named after former president and naval aviator Gerald R. Ford, the USS Ford fully takes the nuclear supercarrier into the twenty-first century. The technological innovations built into the new ship, while causing the inevitable delays involved in building a first-in-class vessel, will keep the Navy’s unique fleet of super flattops the largest and most advanced in the world for the foreseeable future.

USS Ford follows in the steps of the highly successful Nimitz-class carriers. Construction began in 2009 at Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News, Virginia—the same location where the Ford’s predecessors were built. Indeed, the Ford class resembles the Nimitz ships in many ways: they measure 1,106 feet long versus the Nimitz’s 1,092 feet. Both classes weigh the same: approximately one hundred thousand tons fully loaded. Layout is similar, too, with an island on the starboard side, four catapults and an angled flight deck.

The ship is powered by two new-design AB1 nuclear reactors. The reactors are manufactured by Bechtel, which beat out longtime naval reactor giants General Electric and Westinghouse for the reactor contract. Together, the two reactors create six hundred megawatts of electricity, triple the two hundred megawatts of the Nimitz class. That’s enough electricity to power every home in Hampton, Virginia; Pasadena, California; or Syracuse, New York.

[video=youtube;OaokMEJf1yw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaokMEJf1yw[/video]

Ford is going to need that power, not only to reach its estimated top speed of thirty-plus knots but also the new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), which uses electric currents to generate strong magnetic fields that can quickly accelerate an aircraft to takeoff speeds. The system is touted as easier on aircraft, extending their service lives, easier to maintain in general and capable of generating up to 25 percent more sorties than the older steam catapult system.

The new carrier will also use a new system to land aircraft. The new Advanced Arresting Gear uses a water turbine and induction motors to halt the momentum of landing carrier aircraft. Like EMALS, the AAG is expected to be more reliable than the existing aircraft arresting system on Nimitz-class ships and easier on airframes.

Ford will also have the most modern radar systems in the fleet. The Ford will have the new Dual Band Radar, which combines both the X-Band AN/SPY-3 Aegis radar and the S-Band Volume Surveillance Radar. DBR is capable of search, track and multiple missile illumination, detecting enemy aircraft and missiles and then guiding Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) to intercept.

For self-defense, Ford will have two Mk. 29 missile launchers with eight ESSM each, and two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers. It will also have four Phalanx Close-In Weapon Systems for point defense against aircraft, missiles and small ships, and four M2 .50 caliber machine guns. Ford’s generous electrical capacity means that the ship could someday mount laser self-defense weapons. Powered by the ship’s nuclear reactors, such a system would have a virtually limitless ammunition supply, vastly increasing the ship’s defensive capability.

The carrier air wing will form the carrier’s primary means of deploying both offensive and defensive firepower. The Ford class will embark two squadrons of ten to twelve F-35C Joint Strike Fighters, two squadrons of ten to twelve F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, five EA-18G Growler electronic attack jets, four E-2D Hawkeye airborne early-warning and control aircraft, and two C-2 Greyhound carrier onboard delivery (COD) planes. It will also carry eight MH-60S Seahawk helicopters. Down the road, it will embark the MQ-25 Stingray refueling and intelligence collection drone, the eventual planned sixth-generation fighter to replace the Super Hornet, and, if Sen. John McCain has his way, a new long-range strike drone. The V-22 Osprey tiltrotor is also set to replace the C-2 Greyhound in the COD role.

Ford’s entry into active service will once again raise the Navy’s carrier force to eleven ships. The Navy’s carrier fleet is unique in having a congressionally mandated minimum force level: U.S. Code § 5062 states, “the naval combat forces of the Navy shall include not less than 11 operational aircraft carriers.” For, now the Navy is operating with a waiver.

More ships will follow. USS John F. Kennedy, the second aircraft carrier to bear the name of the thirty-fifth president of the United States, is under construction at Newport News and expected to enter service in 2020. The third carrier, Enterprise, is expected to begin construction next year and will join the fleet in the early 2020s. The current push by President Donald Trump and the chief of naval operations to a 350–355-ship fleet will likely include at least one additional Ford-class carrier in the near term.
 

johnny333

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Will it have rail guns?

[video=youtube;9PItPL7EZEc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PItPL7EZEc[/video]
 

tanwahtiu

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So will UN and NATO call for sanctions on US who build deadly WMD nuclear warship gunboats to threaten and intimidate the world?

When is the gunboats diplomacy going to end? Does the world going to do nothing to this aggressor US that keep threatening us with deadly WMD gunboats.

Call for sanctions now on USA?

Where does this bankrupt country US find money to build WMD weapon? Why UN not traced where US get the money from?

And which angmoh terrorist group finance this bankrupt US to build WMD?
 
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war is best form of peace

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This Ang Moh Expensive and useless Crap, was towed back to shipyard on initial sea trail for Major fucked up Repair and stuck there loong time.

@ 1% of it's cost Chinese can make lots of missiles to sink it already.

Chinese & Russians does not go out far from home to bully nor invade weak nations so does NOT need to make 100K tons carriers, just make lots of means to track and destroy these Expensive 100K tons Craps to pain Americans enough, they can not afford the $$$LOST$$$ & Death Tolls. They can not afford 1 sunk, but their enemies can easily sink many.

@ The funds & time & engineering resources they spent to make 1 of these 100K ton junk, Russians & Chinese can make 4 to 5 carriers useful for and fits their own purposes.
 

war is best form of peace

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Will it have rail guns?

[video=youtube;9PItPL7EZEc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PItPL7EZEc[/video]

See the out come of this joke? The Ang Moh installed this expensive gun but CAN NOT AFFORD AMMO for it! They will get shot by Somalia Pirates and not able to return fire, because one round of this ammo is @$0.8 MILLION. The pirate boat only worth $8K! You shoot them they also died laughing! Your shot missed? All the pirates died laughing also!


http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a23738/uss-zumwalt-ammo-too-expensive/

The USS Zumwalt Can't Fire Its Guns Because the Ammo Is Too Expensive

At $800,000 a round, the ammunition is simply too expensive for the Navy to afford.

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Fucking Bankrupted Beggars want to show off EXPENSIVE & USELESS WEAPONS!

Pirates laugh 1st! Kim Jong Nuke & Iranians laughing next, Russian & Chinese laughs last! Huat Ah!
 
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syed putra

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Hope this will scare the shit out of xi jinping! Even carl vinson carrrier group made china scared already.
 

The_Hypocrite

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Arent Aircraft Carriers obsolete? With drones and cruise missiles more advanced than ever and the new Hypersonic missile ah tiong land and russkie land has,,,they are just sitting ducks...
 

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dunch worry, pinkie will choot the sampan 3.0, steath version so smore it undetectable by laydar n fitted with 2 outrigging paddle for the most eco n silent mode
 

kryonlight

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Arent Aircraft Carriers obsolete? With drones and cruise missiles more advanced than ever and the new Hypersonic missile ah tiong land and russkie land has,,,they are just sitting ducks...

Obsolete? Definitely not! Even Russia is joining the game. You know nothing.

Why is Russia creating the biggest aircraft carrier in the world?

April 13, 2017 NIKOLAI LITOVKIN, RBTH

Due to bubbling geopolitical tensions, Russia needs to show its presence in various parts of the world. As a result, it’s building an aircraft carrier that will be able to simultaneously carry up to 100 fighters and bombers

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Narong Wongwan

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Obsolete? Definitely not! Even Russia is joining the game. You know nothing.

Why is Russia creating the biggest aircraft carrier in the world?

April 13, 2017 NIKOLAI LITOVKIN, RBTH

Due to bubbling geopolitical tensions, Russia needs to show its presence in various parts of the world. As a result, it’s building an aircraft carrier that will be able to simultaneously carry up to 100 fighters and bombers

model_aircraft_carrier-2.jpg

Yes nothing Beats an aircraft carrier if you want to project power.
That's why haolian chinks are clamouring for more.
 

war is best form of peace

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Yes nothing Beats an aircraft carrier if you want to project power.
That's why haolian chinks are clamouring for more.

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Aircraft carriers are too slow to project power, waste time, waste resources of planet earth, too gentle and foolishly trying to minimize lost of human life.

Man kind deserves tremendous huge war death tolls instantly. Why bring so much man and equipment to sail long distance on sea to take care of businesses when ICBMs & Nukes can do it? In 20mins the most all targets can turn into Mushroom Clouds & Vapors at a click of buttons. Leave the millions of troop at Tian An Men for Victory Parade is enough. Millions of enemies and collateral losses sent to other worlds.
 
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