Bloomberg has managed to obtain an assessment of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) by the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation. The Pentagon’s chief tester says new aircraft carrier “will probably not achieve” its sortie rate due to ongoing problems with its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) system.
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National Museum of the U.S. Navy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The system failed ten times during testing at sea, leading to two mission aborts. There were also ten “operational mission failures” during arrested landings.