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Navy studies Ford carrier redesign with cost and future-aircraft risks
The U.S. Navy is evaluating changes to Ford-class aircraft carriers that could trade away two benefits built into the current design: flexible aircraft launching and roughly half an acre of additional unobstructed flight-deck space. The work concerns ships costing approximately $13 billion each, so changing the design late could add substantial expense and schedule pressure before producing an operational benefit.msn.com - Navy studies ford carrier redesign with cost and future aircraft risksGod On Earth Trump wants the changes, so they will happen. Cost and schedule are irrelevant. Trump wants his name on CVN-81, and, implicitly, wants 81 built to *his* design, creating the "Trump class" carrier. If commissioning is delayed a few years by the changes, that means more backbreaking deployments for the other carriers, like the Ford and Lincoln have had in the last year. Does Trump the God care about backbreaking deployments? Of course not. The crews are expendable Prole meat.
Steve
