The $13 Billion USS Gerald Ford Plagued by Problems

Jul.31 -- Only two of the 11 weapons elevators on the USS Gerald R. Ford work. Huntington Ingalls delivered the $13 billion aircraft carrier to the Navy in 2017, with no working elevators. It's just the latest in a long line of problems for the ship.

[jamesrichardson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah but more important is the cafeteria working as designed.

[michaelkranyak]

I think $11 billion would have been better spent on nuclear submarines rather these sitting ducks that can be destroyed by one nuclear tipped cruise missile.

[victorj]

How does the ship get delivered if it has so many components not working, shouldn't you withheld delivery until the manufacturer gets everything done.

[SuperMacjoey]

That's made in America for you after 100 years of corporate welfare for you.
100 years of paying more attention to the stock market then the quality of what's being put in stock.

[aliegrid]

instead of building the worlds biggest target that a simple chinese missle can easily destroy they should've spent on education

[markjmaxwell]

I heard they might be using souped up versions of the Nimitz class elevators.
As electromagnetic interference could be part of the issue.
😂😂😂😉😉😉

[lumpy]

Thanks Bloomberg Markets and Finance.😊

[WarsOfate]

Why would they make it work when they can leech more $$$ for repair cost? Money is unlimited anyway, just raise the budget to infinity!

[mooglemy]

Well if your a USN vet and spent any time in the yards you'd know this is not unusual. Amazing that during WW II they could knock out ships of all types and get it done fairly well. I got to see and experience 1st hand sub standard yard work, overhauls and plain goofing off for weeks on end of some yard workers. Sleeping on the job under reduction gear on beds made out of bails of rags. Total disregard for anything they were responsible for, tax dollars hard asleep. Plus try to find a yardbird, impossible ad it was like the weekend. How about testing safety's on a yard retubed Babcock, & And Wilcocks boiler. Gen tube carried away, boiler was hunting like crazy and on superheated steam about 825°. 2 yardbirds and the 1st Class BT PO beat it up the ladder leaving the junior 3rd and boots to deal with the prob. 3rd class BT PO was shuting down the boiler and I opened up running steam gen throttle WO, dropped the load & beat it up the escape trunk with a boot buddy. I was green at the time but it didnt take long to figure out what was going on. Might say it was a real learning experience in skid marking skivvies. Boston and Chaleston SC were the yards I was at. Closed up now but they were brutal for anyone operating yard overhauled machinery after the fact.

[markjmaxwell]

As one of the most complicated pieces of machinery on the planet this is to be expected.
But what is often failed to be mentioned is the massive step up in radar technology and being able to fine tune the launch EMALS for any type of existing or upcoming aircraft or UAV.
If my idea to revert back to a retro fitted weapons elevator system with improved performance as is used on the Nimitz class was not taken seriously, it will be at the loss of the US Navy.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 😂😂😂😂

[daveboydell]

The average American taxpayers are so blind to all this waste!

[edwardtang]

the important thing is whether it has a non-binary toilet.

[trentvo]

One lame video the Ford is a new class of ship. The bugs will have to be worked out, and it will be eventually.

[petebatfish]

This is all Trump's fault. He was president when it was approved ( LOL :)