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Only two of 11 elevators needed to lift munitions to the deck of the U.S. Navys new $13 billion aircraft carrier have been installed, according to a Navy veteran who serves on a key House committee.
I dont see an end in sight right now to getting all the elevators working on the USS Gerald R. Ford, the costliest warship ever, Democratic Representative Elaine Luria of Virginia said in an interview. The ship was supposed to be delivered with the Advanced Weapons Elevators, which are moved by magnets rather than cables, working in May 2017.
Its another setback for contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. -- and for the Navy, which had said in December it planned to complete installation and testing of all 11 elevators before the Ford completed its post-delivery shakedown phase this month, with at least half certified for operation.
Instead, the shakedown phase has been extended to October and the vessel wont have all the elevators installed -- much less functioning -- by then, according to Luria, a 20-year Navy surface warfare officer whose served on two aircraft carriers and as shore maintenance coordinator for a third. Essentially, the ship cant deploy, Luria said. It cant carry ammunition.
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, whos currently filling in as acting deputy defense secretary, said in January that he told President Donald Trump to fire him if the service couldnt fix the weapons elevators by July. Instead, Trump praised the Ford as phenomenal on July 22.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-30/flawed-elevators-on-13-billion-carrier-miss-another-deadline?srnd=politics-vp
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... get what he wants.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,584 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,649 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)meaning, it's all about the money.
I posted this yesterday "the military industrial virus"...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212329356
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Oh yeah; he might come in for a share of the blame. He really likes pointing his stubby little finger at others, even if they didn't have anything to do with the problem.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)"Trump praised the Ford as phenomenal on July 22."
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)1. Steam
2. Steam
We need to bring back steam powered elevators.
Magnets are stupid. Nobody even knows how they work.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)if this would have happened under a competent Navy Secretary and Secretary of Defense?