On the newest aircraft carrier of the US Navy "Gerald Ford" again problems

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The newest American aircraft carrier Gerald Ford again failed to fully complete the tests. This time, the tests were suspended due to malfunctions in the operation of electromagnetic lifts delivering weapons from lower decks to aircraft, reports The Times.

On the newest aircraft carrier of the US Navy "Gerald Ford" again problems




The latest aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy once again interrupted the test. According to the command of the American fleet, The reason for this was the problem with electromagnetic lifts, as well as malfunctions in the power plant of the ship.

According to the publication, malfunctions were detected in 11 electromagnetic lifts that "do not meet quality standards." According to the representative of the Navy, the lifts do not have prototypes and were developed "directly on board the ship." Installation of the first two lifts revealed problems with doors, hatches, as well as software. Currently, "invited experts" are working with them.

It is also reported that during the tests there were problems with the power plant of the aircraft carrier. If both nuclear reactors functioned normally, a malfunction occurred in the operation of the turbogenerator.

Recall that the aircraft carrier was put into operation in the 2017 year, but already then complaints began to come about the operation of new electromagnetic launch catapults and braking systems. In the American media there were reports that the power of the catapults was insufficient to disperse the F / A-18 Hornet attack aircraft with full load. Later, problems were reported with the operation of the lifts.

Recall, Gerald Ford - the most expensive aircraft carrier in stories American Navy. Its cost was about $ 13 billion. The length of the ship is 337 m, the displacement is 100 thousand tons, the speed is up to 30 knots. On board it can accommodate 4.400 people and 75 units of aircraft, including F-35 fighters. The US Navy ordered four such aircraft carriers.
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  1. +5
    6 August 2019 11: 55
    Open kingstones and your head won't hurt laughing
    1. +4
      6 August 2019 11: 58
      Let them drive to Mykolaev. They will quickly play it there. feel
      1. +1
        6 August 2019 16: 54
        It’s for sure, since electromagnets mean copper is, if copper is, it means you can dismantle and sell pollen. Everything is logical. lol laughing
    2. +2
      6 August 2019 13: 08
      They also do not work for them! laughing
      1. 0
        6 August 2019 16: 47
        Quote: alexey3312
        They also do not work for them! laughing

        Think electromagnetic too?
    3. 0
      6 August 2019 14: 35
      feel It is clear that the technique is the most complicated and the latest .... But it’s just the name day of the heart, failures, failures, breakdowns, and if there was a flood, then ........ would have unleashed. feel
    4. -5
      6 August 2019 16: 41
      Quote: Vladislav_2
      Open kingstones and your head won't hurt laughing

      they did so with the dock from Kuznetsov, it remains the last nedoavik now drown and fse. E- Saving!
  2. +9
    6 August 2019 11: 55
    Well, only ships that don’t go sailing do not break, but they rust very much
    1. KCA
      +2
      6 August 2019 12: 01
      He doesn’t really go sailing, he’ll only go to sea, and then back to the stall
      1. -3
        6 August 2019 12: 05
        Do you serve on the team of this aircraft carrier or in the US Navy that you say so?
        1. KCA
          +3
          6 August 2019 12: 46
          Do you live in the 16th century? Do you receive news only from the ship crew? Or all that is against US Navy and in general USA simply do not perceive? Search the Internet, preferably on Yandex. Google has a habit of censoring answers to a question
          1. +2
            6 August 2019 14: 01
            Well, if you draw information from the slop pit of the Internet, you can find diametrically opposite information, even if there are problems the United States will solve them for them, these billions of dollars are equal to the cost of the paper on which they are printed, for us these are sold goods or natural resources.
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        1. KCA
          +5
          6 August 2019 12: 52
          For 13 dollars in Russia, they would have built several shipyards and aircraft carriers of such a displacement, and painted them in 000 layers with "Hammeray" from the keel to the highest mast, and "Kuzya" is an old man, whose best years were drained into the cesspool
          1. +4
            6 August 2019 13: 51
            What's the point of arguing ?! There are doubts that this vessel will be brought to working condition and put into the fleet? I do not have. This is a matter of time and money. Still green will be printed if something happens, who considers them there besides us?
            And then, lifting mechanisms (this is the question by the way, how they could be designed on the spot) can be replaced in cases of which with analogs ... This is not the most critical technology in the construction of aircraft carriers. With a power plant it would be more difficult.
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              1. +1
                6 August 2019 14: 07
                But the question is not who they or we are. When so much time and effort has been invested in the project, no one will let him become just a monument by the mooring wall. Especially when it comes to not so much important technology as lifts ...
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          3. 0
            6 August 2019 14: 41
            Since the beginning of the year, the top ten richest people in Russia have enriched more than $ 20 billion in total. These are almost 2 American aircraft carriers and about a dozen Russian ones. But of course, neither the Russian Navy, nor the people will see this money.
            1. KCA
              +2
              6 August 2019 15: 07
              Do you think that they put this money in bags, dug it in the garden, and you need to dig and build ships? For these 20 lard they bought the shares of various enterprises and organizations, invested in improving those factories that they already have, etc., their ASSETS, and not cash, increased by 20 billion, what, take everything away and share it?
              1. -3
                6 August 2019 15: 47
                invested in improving the factories that they already have, etc.,

                You have some naive view of things, to say the least.
                Please transfer to me how many factories for these billions of dollars have begun to improve and modernize with us? Because they earned these billions because they don’t invest their money in production, are they stupid? If you can ask Putin to them for free, our money will give them to them for their needs. And by the way, 20 billion is the officially announced figure from Forbes, but how many are they forwarded in a black cache over the hill? What, this can not be? Everyone knows our rats, at least several times more they have.
                1. 0
                  6 August 2019 15: 55
                  Quote: vasiliev yu
                  Everyone knows our rats

                  Don't "for all", otherwise I'll think badly of you.

                  So there it is something (with facts, please, not wet fantasies) you personally do you know about "our rats"?
                  1. -2
                    6 August 2019 15: 59
                    Where do you start?
                    From manturov? with bone? with shuvalov? with volodin? from chubais? and the rest ...
                    1. +2
                      6 August 2019 16: 07
                      Quote: vasiliev yu
                      Where do you start?

                      Of your choice. The main thing - in detail and with the confirmation of your words with relevant documents.

                      And do not deviate from the topic much, let me remind you - we talked about the fact that

                      Quote: vasiliev yu
                      ... how many black cache are they transporting over the hill? What, this can not be? Everyone knows our rats, at least several times more they have
                      1. -2
                        6 August 2019 16: 16
                        Oh yes, I forgot the main rats: Michelson and Deripaska.
                      2. +1
                        6 August 2019 16: 22
                        Quote: vasiliev yu
                        forgot the main rats

                        Do not flow along the tree ... the question is indicated above, "the ball is on your side."
                      3. -3
                        6 August 2019 16: 28
                        Quote: Cat Man Null
                        Of your choice. The main thing - in detail and with the confirmation of your words with relevant documents.

                        Pedalny page on YouTube. There and documents flicker. And most importantly, Kitty - not a single intelligible rebuttal from the main characters, not a single statement in court for defamation! Oh yes, Zolotov summoned to a duel! wassat
                        Quote: Cat Man Null
                        Do not feed ... I'll take care

                        How much pathos and conceit! laughing Will the "processor" power be enough? wink
                      4. +2
                        6 August 2019 16: 36
                        Quote: Ingvar 72
                        Ingvar 72

                        Do you have a multi-account?
                        If so, it’s against the rules, risk it ...
                        If not, the question is not for you, relax while on the sidelines. Yes
                      5. -1
                        6 August 2019 16: 40
                        Quote: Cat Man Null
                        Do you have a multi-account?

                        Hallucinations? You can’t sit so much in front of the computer. wink
                        On the topic of pedal charges have something to say? As for me, I agree with Vasilyev Yu - the problem is in rats.
                      6. +1
                        6 August 2019 16: 43
                        Quote: Ingvar 72
                        On the topic of pedal charges have something to say?

                        And where did you get that you have the right to ask questions here?

                        Quote: Ingvar 72
                        Hallucinations?

                        Yeah ... that is, you and "Vasiliev" are two different people ... then -

                        Quote: Cat Man Null
                        the question is not for you, relax while on the sidelines

                        What is not clear? wink
                      7. -1
                        6 August 2019 16: 45
                        Quote: Cat Man Null
                        And where did you get that you have the right to ask questions here?

                        Do you have this right exclusively? belay
                        Quote: Cat Man Null
                        What is not clear?

                        Do not tell me what to do, and I will not tell you where to go. wink
                      8. 0
                        6 August 2019 17: 14
                        And do not deviate from the topic much, let me remind you - we talked about the fact that

                        Quote: Vasilyev u
                        ... how many black cache are they transporting over the hill? What, this can not be? Everyone knows our rats, at least several times more they have

                        Remind Suleiman Kerimov? As he suitcases from the country on his plane transported cash over the hill, about 100 million dollars? And with this money in France I bought locks (some call them villas) and, according to Russian habit, decided to throw the French with taxes, but they didn’t penetrate and arrested him, then Putin himself asked for Kerimov? Do not remember? And why am I not surprised about you?
                      9. +1
                        6 August 2019 17: 33
                        Quote: vasiliev yu
                        Remind Suleiman Kerimov? How did he transport the cash over the hill, about 100 million bucks, with suitcases from the country on his plane?

                        Come on, let's ... don't be shy. Remember the question yet? wink
                2. KCA
                  +2
                  6 August 2019 16: 01
                  Not only rats are in business, not everyone is sent over the hill, out there, Galitsky "Magnet" sold, and what? Before the sale, the entire "liberal" press screamed - crushed, strangled, packing their suitcases, knocking over the hill, etc., and he cho, he built a park in Krasnodar, FC Krasnodar maintains. with him a free school of children's football, and he says - he sold the business because just bothered, ceased to bring satisfaction. You judge this by the publications in the press, the Internet, TV, they show and talk about a small circle of billionaires. but very many do not stick out at all, do not show themselves on yachts, they have no time, they work, and do not want to be distracted, to be crawled to them
                  1. -1
                    6 August 2019 16: 09
                    Quote: KCA
                    Not only rats in business ...

                    Do not feed ... I'll take care wink
                  2. -2
                    6 August 2019 16: 11
                    According to Galitsky, I can’t say anything bad, many praise him, and I specifically did not look for bad things about him. If he really is the way you describe him, well done! And how many more can you name such as Galitsky for all of Russia? And do not forget that we have rats not only in business, but everywhere now. And in politics and in officials and among security officials.
                    And I judge so not by the shit-keeper (I just don’t have him and I will not wash this trash away), but by Telegram, every day I read which rats and how many millions and billions have been stolen. By the way, I advise everyone to the Telegram, it is not in vain that his bureaucrats forbid it, they do not want the people to know the truth about them.
                    1. KCA
                      +3
                      6 August 2019 16: 23
                      Well, Telegram, yes, it’s a completely insignificant source, still say that Wikipedia implies immutable truths, and there, and there, and I, and you can write all kinds of crap, whoever wants to believe it, I’ll call myself in Telegram the deputy director of financial intelligence, one from, I won’t say the name, and I will drive what I want, and what? Will you also take my words for granted, refer to me?
                      1. -1
                        6 August 2019 16: 33
                        Quote: KCA
                        Well, Telegram is yes, a completely unworthy source, still say that Wikipedia immutable truths speaks

                        And "Russia" and "Channel One" are the worst? belay For me, this is the first balabol.
                      2. KCA
                        +2
                        6 August 2019 16: 55
                        So you read / look at all the sources, analyze, draw conclusions, and not like that - I won’t watch the 1st, 3rd, 3rd channel, there are only Kremlin bots on the internet, I won’t read, I’ll only read Telegram, there just do not lie
                      3. -3
                        6 August 2019 17: 03
                        So I read what I myself think is necessary, and the propagandons on a huge salary do not bother me with shit.
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          4. -1
            6 August 2019 15: 37
            You don't know much about Kuznetsov. If you look at Telegram, then go to the channel 'The Look of a Man in Stripes', just these days they write about Kuza, there are so many problems with him that it was necessary to write him off for a long time and something new to do instead of him.
            If another five colonels were dispossessed, money would have been more than worth it. But it’s obvious to steal them more important.
          5. -1
            6 August 2019 16: 57
            If, yes, if only ... And grandmother would become a grandfather.
        2. MMX
          -2
          6 August 2019 17: 30
          Quote: Elon Musk
          But Kuznetsov is in order! The world's best aircraft carrier


          And a bunch of models of promising Russian aircraft carriers! Do not forget about it.
          In terms of layouts, we have no equal in the world.
          Americans are building one aircraft carrier for 13 billion, and we can make a bunch of models for just 1 billion.
  3. 0
    6 August 2019 11: 58
    And with the catapults, then, figured out?
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  4. +3
    6 August 2019 11: 58
    the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford again failed to fully complete the test.
    Now catapults, then lifts, then a turbine generator. What's next? And why was $ 13 billion spent in order to quickly report on the commissioning and show their "power"? The same happens with the "Zumwalt", which is the "coolest" and the most "invisible", and the F-35, which we hear about every day. This is no longer an accident, but a pattern of the American military-industrial complex - money in the evening, chairs in the morning, and even then in question.
    1. 0
      6 August 2019 12: 20
      Quote: rotmistr60
      What's next?

      nothing remains how to continue to cut money ... wink
      1. 0
        6 August 2019 13: 54
        It would be possible to continue gibbering, having the most advanced and advanced AUG, alas, we do not have it. Kuzyu would restore ...
    2. +5
      6 August 2019 12: 34
      " What's next?"///
      ----
      There is a debugging of the lead ship of a large series. We switched from steam and hydraulics to electricity.
      1. +1
        6 August 2019 12: 41
        We switched from steam and hydraulics to electricity.
        So we should expect a short circuit and failure of electrical equipment? "What's next?" about what next malfunctions will follow.
        1. +3
          6 August 2019 13: 07
          In recent years, there have been no more faults, but many times more INFORMATION about faults.
          Twenty years ago, we would not have heard about the problems of Almaty, nor about the problems of the F-35.
          The military did not advertise their troubles. Now it’s impossible to hide - anyway, someone will take a picture on a smartphone - so they decided to inform about everything.
          1. +2
            6 August 2019 13: 57
            I don’t think we are told 10% of the current state of affairs.
            However, do you think the press 30 years ago there would have been no questions, had a new, terribly expensive aircraft carrier come to the test and immediately returned back? Worse, she would come up with three boxes)))
            1. -2
              6 August 2019 14: 12
              There was no Internet (or rather, it was in diapers). There was no smartphone with a camera for everyone.
              There were no forums where information could be spilled out and discussed until blue in the face.
              And the number of breakdowns and accidents was not less than now.
              1. +1
                6 August 2019 14: 15
                And the number of breakdowns and accidents was not less than now.
                If not more ...
                Nobody argues with this. This process is called refinement.
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      1. +2
        6 August 2019 13: 33
        And Great Russia is not going to control the whole world and put it in a certain position. And we don't need such pies. And Kuznetsov is capable of a lot. And power is not in money. Easily answered, mister "musk"?
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          1. -2
            6 August 2019 14: 38
            Even if officials steal, then I’ll tell you one thing - the stolen goods have never been used by anyone. Sooner or later, stolen ten times harm the thief himself. Now for Syria. I am not a supporter of helping Arabs, knowing the East and those people. When the opportunity arises, they are easily ready to stick a knife in the back, but the introduction of troops was necessary, otherwise now in that area there would have been a completely different alignment. Kuznetsov’s campaign there was not in vain. In the end, we remembered that we have it and that it needs modernization.
          2. +1
            6 August 2019 16: 49
            The answer is simple, they asked for help, a strategic partner. The Black Sea is the underbelly of Russia, and the door to this underbelly must be controlled, preferably from the Mediterranean Sea. Plus, with the help of Syria, you can block pipeline projects from the Gulf countries, which we do not need in FIG.
        2. -1
          6 August 2019 17: 11
          Well, this is until economically has reached at least the level of China. No such resources unfortunately.
        3. A5V
          -1
          6 August 2019 17: 50
          We need such aircraft carriers, if only because we have a significant part of the nuclear arsenal in submarines that we need to cover with something.

          Regardless of whether Russia is going to control the whole world or not, our interests can arise anywhere in this world, as happened in Syria in 2015. In local conflicts, aircraft carriers are a very useful tool.

          Kuznetsov, alas, is unlikely to be capable of anything big either because of his initial shortcomings (the same springboard), and because of the state to which he was brought.

          Quote: ltc35
          And power is not in money

          It sounds nice, but silly :))
    4. +1
      6 August 2019 13: 12
      Envy in silence that you didn’t get a cut ... smile
  5. 0
    6 August 2019 11: 59
    That is, in fact, the lifts are non-standard? And how will they solve the problem - each aircraft carrier will have its own "variety" of lifts, or will they still be unified ??? Constructed a $ 13 billion problem. ..
    1. -1
      6 August 2019 12: 09
      This is what makes access to the printing press too easy.
    2. +1
      6 August 2019 12: 32
      This type of aircraft carrier has several times more lifts than there were on Nimitz. Principle: "clean deck". Ammunition and fuel are supplied strictly under the aircraft.
      Hence several types of elevators.
      But on other Ford carriers, the same types of elevators are standardized. We need to deal with the head gear of the series.
      1. -1
        6 August 2019 13: 15
        It seems to me that they ordered elevators from the Shcherbinsky elevator plant ..... laughing
    3. 0
      6 August 2019 12: 41
      This is the lead ship of the new series with a lot of new equipment. The second ship of this series is ahead of schedule due to the fact that all problems are identified and eliminated on the head
  6. 0
    6 August 2019 12: 19
    For some reason IT does not upset me .....
  7. +5
    6 August 2019 12: 28
    I did not understand what kind of electromagnetic lifts we are talking about. As far as I know, for the first time electromagnetic catapults were installed on the Ford instead of the steam ones used on other US aircraft carriers. There were problems with these gearboxes from the very beginning .. The lifts are most likely not electromagnetic, but electromechanical. Previously, it seemed to be hydraulic. If not right, let the specialists correct me. And if right, then there may well be problems with them, but hardly critical
  8. Naz
    0
    6 August 2019 12: 33
    At least something breaks in them, we have nothing to break on.
  9. -2
    6 August 2019 12: 52
    News about a fundamentally new PLUR.
    The Navy will receive a fundamentally new PLUR - anti-submarine guided missile. It allows you to destroy submarines at a distance of tens of kilometers from warships. The algorithm of the PLUR is quite simple. A patrol plane or helicopter finds a submarine and issues a target designation in real time. Further from the ship to the specified area, a guided missile is launched, which destroys the object.

    The novelty is in a high degree of readiness, sources in the High Command of the Navy told Izvestia. A modern anti-submarine missile is placed in a universal transport and launch container (TPK). There are two modules in it - the launch and combat control, as well as the power source and a number of auxiliary systems.

    https://iz.ru/904667/aleksei-ramm-bogdan-stepovoi/udar-nebes-flot-poluchit-upravliaemye-rakety-dlia-borby-s-submarinami
  10. -1
    6 August 2019 12: 52
    If an electromagnetic catapult is unable to disperse the Super Hornet (maximum takeoff weight 30 tons), then how will it disperse the Penguin (maximum takeoff weight 35 tons)? laughing
    1. +2
      6 August 2019 13: 05
      And why should it be overclocked if the F-35B, designed to be based on aircraft carriers, has a vertical take-off function?
      1. +1
        6 August 2019 13: 23
        This vertical take-off function has it. He doesn’t have one. There is a short take-off.
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=148&v=eOSXrDDvou4
        1. +2
          6 August 2019 15: 20
          "He doesn't have this" ////
          -----
          There is. But for emergency cases only. With half ammunition and a small amount of fuel.
          Without a run at all. From a place and vertically.
      2. +2
        6 August 2019 13: 25
        The Penguin with the C index (equipped with a reinforced nose wheel strut and a tail hook) is intended for basing on aircraft carriers with a catapult and aerofinishers. "Penguin" with the index B vertical take-off and landing (equipped with a fan driven by a DTRD) is intended for basing on aircraft-carrying ships without catapult and aerofinishers.
      3. -1
        6 August 2019 16: 46
        It seems like an avatar with an airplane, but you ask such stupid questions.
    2. -4
      6 August 2019 13: 19
      And the Penguins are launched like our Waterfalls. First, a torpedo into the water, and then into the heavenly heights (what would then be back into the water ...). smile
    3. 0
      6 August 2019 13: 22
      And how then will she disperse the AWACS plane? belay Which is much harder?
      Failures were not related to weight.
      1. +1
        6 August 2019 14: 20
        Quote: voyaka uh
        And how will she then disperse the AWACS plane

        the axis extends, the plane is tied, the axis begins to spin faster and faster, the rope breaks
        and the plane is flying laughing
  11. +1
    6 August 2019 14: 17
    Quote: KCA
    For $ 13 in Russia, several shipyards and aircraft carriers of such a displacement would be built

    appoint Chubais and the price of an aircraft carrier that is not built will be 100 times more than the American, but billionaires will envy luxury on corporate parties.
  12. 0
    6 August 2019 16: 45
    Why are EM lifts needed? What does not suit ordinary electro / hydro-mechanical? EM catapults, I still understand the pros, and the lifts, these are ordinary elevators.
  13. -2
    6 August 2019 17: 32
    AUG USA is not particularly afraid of anyone in the world ..! Want independence, be friends with Russia, not for free of course. hi

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