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The Most Expensive Warship Ever Built Is Finally Ready
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2023
- The Gerald R. Ford-class carriers are designed to be the most technologically advanced and capable aircraft carriers in the world. They are larger and more advanced than the previous Nimitz-class carriers, and feature a number of new technologies, including a new nuclear power plant, a redesigned flight deck, and an electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) that replaces the traditional steam catapults used on previous carriers.
The Gerald R. Ford-class carriers are expected to remain in service for 50 years or more, and are expected to be the centerpiece of the U.S. Navy's carrier strike groups for decades to come.
Looking forward to seeing the new USS Enterprise! The *new* "Big E!"
It'll boldly go where no sailor has gone before!
A brand new nuclear Wessel!
When the new Enterprise arrives you know everything is right with the world.
May the new USS Enterprise be Dilithium powered with Warp Drive. 🎉
Let's not forget a couple of small things. Enterprise is ahead of schedule! John F Kennedy is ahead of schedule. Even Dorie Miller is ahead of the production timeline.
It makes sense that the Navy isn't excessively celebrating the Ford's operational status. What if something goes wrong again after they declare it fully operational? Imagine how bad the press would be.
If it just worked out of the gate there wouldn't be much of anything new or different. The first of anything, especially something as complex as an aircraft carrier class, can be expected to have problems. Once solved though production of future ships of the same class can be streamlined as the Nimitz class is retired. Prototypes are typically vastly more expensive than the final product, doesn't really matter what you're making. The cost and time needed to get it right pays for itself over time many times over.
Thanx for pointing this out. This ship specifically and the f35s often get heavily criticized for having, like you said, common issues in the early production years of any product. especially a highly advanced weapon of war. Also you have to learn how to use the product you created correctly. The best technique to utilize its full potential and this takes time. F35s are nuts and they are just infants. When they meet their potential they are just going to be scary.
Something Russia and China still have not learned!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢🚢
The first generation of anything is always a problem
When 1st proposed CVN78 had a cost estimate of 19 B $ with R&D included. WoW I thought. But after I learned of the EMALS and linear motor elevators it made sense. It got some bad press. Even Trump knocked on a visit and asked the crew wether EMALS or steam Cats were better. That was inappropriate for 45 to question anything in public and the crew. But eventually they resolved the new tech issues as usual. So the rest of the Ford Class will get similar builds. But also bear in mind improvements will be made as running changes to current builds as they were to Nimitz class.
The ammount of design difference from Nimitz class is Hugh. Naval engineers strive to ensue that the 1st in a class of new ships and in particular carriers have as little as possible hiccups. Doesn't always work that way though. Good job anyway I'd say.
@@donnthesovereigncitizen1577 Jury's still out on PRCs new carrier. It'd not fully fitted out yet and has to do sea trials. Crewing and operation will be a hard learning curve also.
I'd like to see what it is capable of and can do. One thing with the PRC, they won't admit to any problems. The USA I'd very open with some things to a varying degree. So you think the PRC will report any issues if there are any issues? I don't think so. 4:45
Meanwhile Chinese carriers have sink holes on their decks🤣
And cracks in the deck
Look again. It's just water on the deck...
There decks actually end up cracking
@@elmoheadno, there are structural cracks all over the Chinese carrier hulls and decks. Not good. Fortunately, they’re in dry dock.
Yeah... funny how they're shit-talking a ship that is literally cutting-edge technology that has gone through multiple explosive tests, while the Chinese carriers are literally falling apart while they're floating in dock.
Wow it's still impressive because all those electronics and advanced stuff makes it hard to meet the speed America was building carriers during WW2.
imo if need too , they can build it as fast as during ww2. keep in mind ww2 carrier was build to be number and last for a few fight only. current carrer was build to last for 50years, so they take their time. ww2 carrer only need to be able to flat, move and carry planes til it sink or war end, so they bypass many safety issue cause it war time.
@@yia01 - where are the ship yards to build them fast, 90% were closed - where the electric generational capacity, we had less than 20 years ago, they cant even replace the missiles systems we sent to ukraine in less then 7 years and that is the pentagons and manufacturers figure - 20 years to design and build this thing and I believe they will lose it in the current war.
@@RobertMillerJustmeIn peacetime, defense expenditures are seen as sensational & abominable wastes of money. An ignorant mainstream media gets a cheap sensationalist 15 second story to tell; reporting on waste, delays, corruption, & the unavoidable technology hiccups & initial failures that inevitably go along with bleeding-edge technology promises...that at least the US Military-Industrial Complex seems to be quite able to solve & subsequently overcome before TOO long. Unlike say, their trash-talking fascist adversaries who just jail their independent media for pointing that their own advanced technology either doesn't work (& never will🤣🤣🤣) or doesn't exist (like Nikita Khrushchev's fleet of supersonic long-range nuclear bombers. Anyone remember that?).
Now the clouds of war gather all around us, in plain sight of a world with its head firmly jammed up its ass, a day late & a dollar short AS USUAL & OF COURSE, still reeling from the after-effects of the Kung Flu global Pandemic, the realization of the limitations & shortcomings of the "Just In Time" & Neo-Conjob Neo-Fiberal "globally integrated economy", & even the repercussions of the 2008 financial crisis, the Crime of the Century where we were all conned & swindled into bailing out the rich criminals who created it because they were deemed (by themselves!👹) to be "too big to fail", & with the handouts & WHOREpoRATe welfare that our governments continue to dole out to them in ever-increasing amounts, now therefore continue to hold the global real-estate market hostage with unaffordable prices & and the resulting economic dislocation that has only served to greatly widen the gap between the rich & the poor...
Given how Western Democracy has for the last 40 years done nothing but lie to us about the evils of Unions, Socialism,(you can see how it's ruining those 💩🕳️ countries in Scandinavia, Canada, Germany, Israel, etc.🤨) & "excessive regulation"; & then subsequently destroy the middle class & send working people on a chase to win the "Race To The Bottom", mostly by ignorantly transferring wealth to the very tyrants like Xi Jen Peng who planned on using that wealth to build up their own military capabilities in order to destroy us, you can kind of see why the average slob can't tell who's a dangerous criminal & who isn't, & acts like he hardly cares if Iran or North Korea or "Communist" China or the Orcs of RuZzia take over the world.
I mean, will the average slob actually be any worse off than we are under the current epic mismanagement & criminality of our "democratic" economic & political elites?
Of course he will!
But WTF do we have Leaders that even have to make us think about that???😡
Even for a moment!!!🤬
The GREEEEDHEAD "Free Market" speculators who just couldn't wait to stampede into financing & building Lenin's rope factory are finally having their moment...
Gob help us all!!!🤦
They can get the reactors to work, but struggled with the lift elevator and launch system! SNAFU 🤪
It is not uncommon that the 1st ship of this class to be this way. 2nd and 3rd Ford class will come quicker and cheaper. The bugs are worked out in the lead ship.
There must always be a USS Enterprise.
It should have been the name of the class with follow on ships named Lexington, Hornet etc.
The Gerald R. Ford is already on deployment in the Baltic sea.
😂😂 Imagine being able to say you serve/served on the USS Enterprise. LOL Where are my trekkies at?
As long as she isn't designated CVN65-A😂
I didn't serve on the Enterprise but I got to walk her decks for three hours after she came back for the last time. Even for her age that's quite an impressive ship.
I don't have to imagine. Reactor department, USS ENTERPRISE CVN65, 1980-1984.
@@johnjones5354 Nice lol. In all seriousness though thank you for your service.
@@johnjones5354 thank you for your service!!!!
Thanks for making this video it helped me decide, sadly i think i have to go for the inflatable raft instead due to price reasons.
A slab of wood for me.
So you're going to opt out of the 13 billion-dollar supercarrier?
How many jets you think you can fit on a dinghy?
I'm assuming you want it equipped with next gen laser technology?! 🎉🎉🎉
May she serve well, the Sword of the Seas, bless the men and women that move her, and let no corruption influence her holy will.
Tell that to our British Royal Navy, we own the seas.
Let us hope that we aren't building three Zumwaltized aircraft carriers.
US Navy now needs 4500 trained & qualified sailors to operate this beast! Nuclear carrier with the most advanced radar, sonar, & airplanes in the Navy.
Don’t worry, merika’s military is putting a wokey chokey plan into place, they already wrote out a new declaration for bringing In lots of pick and blue hairs and men who think they are women.
Magnificent. American Taxpayers money at its finest. This ship will protect our interests for decades.
It was commissioned in July 2017, achieved IOC in December 2021, and was first deployed in October 2022. What does “is finally ready” mean in June 2023?
“Click Bait”
She is already deployed and has been for a couple months now.
And it was still cheaper than the two Scottish ferries!
And built in a shorter time.😂😂😂😂😂😂
We need a CVN USS Ranger. The name Ranger goes back to the Revolutionary War, and was captained by John Paul Jones.
Top Gun Bar None!
Such beautiful power projection. Go USA!
Realy I like this powerful warships
Nice boat
I think we should’ve listened more to our grandparents, the greatest generation, and perhaps have learned how to create new weapons in times of weeks+months, and not in years+decades…sorry grandpa
Time and cost are the price of new technology. Can't keep your fleet the best unless you innovate.
Seven days and 165 comments without the obvious Ford joke, you guys are slipping.
0:45 wow, she is beautiful
The Zumwalt class destroyers were punted to be the Navy's game changer. Now the project's been cancelled. US design and engineering at the _bleeding edge_ !!
Too bad the magnetic catapult system screws with avionics.
I remember delay after delay... Finally! 😍 Just hope it never gets used in a real fight..
Have a good feeling they will and they should that's what they're built for.
The bad guys already know where the exhaust work is located
Then it would be pointless and a waste of money. I hope they use it to its full potential.
@@coronalight77 Its not a waste.. There are a lot of things we buy for "just incase I need it" for example security systems in our house.
@@Sandhill1988 You think WW3 is coming?
Most brand new ships have teething problems. It takes time to work them out .more technology more problems.
Akhirnya paket dh sampai ❤❤❤❤❤
Has that taken into account inflation?
Just a big target that will be sunk fairly quickly in battle.
Not so easily done with it's accompanying protection vessles of subs and surface war ships and it's own aircraft.
An aircraft carrier has the unque capability of force projection anywhere around the world. No other platform can do that.
Also tri-redundancy in exterior box sections.
@@denisdegamon8224people say that but it's pure delusion, sure you can go anywhere in the world and bully Iraq, Libya ect but when you actually wanna fight a war, good luck trying to bully and fight Russia or China with an aircraft carrier. I'm not saying these ships are useless but very overrated, just like the battleship in ww2
@@mrwhips3623the battle ship was done by ww2. But still had its uses. As an anti aircraft platform it was great. Still could be used for shore bombardment. Non were sunk in conflict.
Grusch says otherwise! Show us the REAL most expensive “ship”.
Click bait
China is the world's leading imitator of military equipment 😁🇨🇳
On station in the Baltic deterring Russian aggression. Money well spent.
The carrier Ford is a real bargain when you consider that Brandon left $80+ billion in Afghanistan in his Presidential debut.
it was definitely planned. isis is now using those weapons against Iran. 2 Steps ahead.
Wasn’t that the inane withdrawal pushed by twice indicted defeated Donny before he was booted from office?
Oh my God y'all need to stop listening to one side or the other and listen to both so you know they're actually trying to brainwash y'all yes Trump was the one who pushed that withdraw but Biden's bulshit too fast withdraw from the area ended up leaving billions of dollars worth of equipment there unnecessarily stop listening to the mainstream media Fox News and CNN are both just as corrupt as the other and they're controlled by the same people stop listening to them they want us to fight with each other so we don't see what they're really doing start thinking for yourselves for once people
$80 billion of stuff that is now being used in a war against Iran.
@@purdybill yes, the answer is yes.
i think my space ship is better for 50 billion. once the ship building factory is done. it should take about a year to build
Thank God the military is woke and knows what Pronouns to use!
It can't help Ukraine or Poland as oceans are far far away 😅😅😅😅
Bring back the Tomcat!
For what. The tomcat was a headache for navy. They break down very easy and cost navy a lot money to keep operational
@@LSmoney215 That's exactly why it needed to be kept updated just like they've done for the F-15, 16, and 18.
Updated aircraft are much easier to maintain.
@@colonalklink14 Not when they've destroyed all the airframes and spare parts. The few remaining F-14s are in museums or the Iranian air force.
@@patrickweaver1105 I know that they destroyed them all.
The United States has fully capable hypersonic propulsion. However, this technology like many other American technologies has been down played or publicly denied due national strategic policies. In other words,... play dumb.
If the bridge gets any further aft they’ll be towing it behind the ship
I agree. It looks located in the most dangerous position for flight ops!
Video creator was in a cave for the last 4 years is he just finding out about the Gerald R. Ford?
So that's where american healthcare money is going
Cool 😎
Does the sewage system finally work on these ships? What is the defense for hypersonic missiles? Good luck boys. Sorry... and girls.
Can I have it
Ah, just in time..
Now they just need to find sailors to man it. Recruiting numbers aren’t looking too good.
Thank the girl with the lesbian moms for that disgusting, weak, miserable commercial.
They should recruit from gay bars and drag shows.
@@CashCatz lol , nice one!
@@CashCatz as an army vet, I agree 100 percent. The same way they’ve done it for decades!
Okay, enough! The United states navy carrier battle group is the mightiest force on the planet. Good luck trying to get close and threaten a carrier task group. Between the airborne radar, combat air patrol(CAP), the multiple guided missile destroyers and cruisers, the super silent attack submarines it's damn near impossible for anyone to get close to the carrier. Meanwhile she's launching f/a 18 Super Hornets and f35 stealth fighters constantly in order to blow your asses off the planet. Yeah, good luck with that..
2 Zircons and it's a reef structure!
I'm not arrogant. If it floats it can sink or be sunk. However most of us just comment without thought or substance. Who know for sure? It sure isn't a CZcams commenter!
@@mooglemy3813 How much do you know about the United states navy? Yes ships can be sunk. I want you to think about the makeup of the current us navel carrier battle group. The super carrier itself, its escorting ships (Arleigh Burke class destroyers are big cans of whup ass), stealthy quiet attack submarines, radar capability out to 3,4 hundred miles. F/A 18 Growlers with superior electronic jamming capabilities. And of course the super Hornets that will kill you long before you even get close to the carrier. We perfected it in WW2 and it is obvious. No one country has the ability to stand up to the United states navy.
@@user-ko7dt1bp1q I wonder if your wonderful military will have enough ammo to take on Russia, China and Iran, collectively. 🤔😉. It's pretty silly of you to say how 'whup ass' tough your military is when you've had to run away after taking on camel jockeys, VC farmers and Afghan shepherds. You've become a bunch of has-beens, live with it!
50 hornets wow
The only new carrier the us have is the Gerald Ford. Who’s been for some time now. Is this a new one?
Why tell the enemy ❤
Because the US government is arrogant and thinks they own the oceans. I'm also American, but if I could I would cancel my citizenship and apply for the country I've been living in for the past fifteen years. The only thing I really miss about the US is the geography.
UnrealGamer451 the UK is going to shit too mate we can't keep our borders secure
:35 the ship even has an HDMI port
I find it kind of funny considering the "green" morons that the only new technology that worked as promised on this ship was the nuclear reactor.
The new technology is all working as promised.
Hopefully it’s fed Slavic and Chinese 😋
Its already been deployed....
When missiles start taking these carriers out and they are relegated to the secondary role of battleships, who answers to that spending mistake? Seems cheaper to just relocate Taiwan to Texas than to build all these. Another thought- let Taiwan build them themselves.
Aircraft carriers will become the new battleship
Aircraft carriers will make great infrastructures for new reefs!
The day of the aircraft carrier is well and truly over. Kinda dumb to spend money on stuff like this when the Russians are pumping out Poseidon torpedoes and hypersonic missiles.
But hey, nice cash cow money grabber for the MIC. 🤑
$13.3 billion, at least. Which can be taken out of service or destroyed with one slightly lucky torp.
The British QE's were less than a quarter of that cost and fly just 50 less sorties a day
Nah one torpedo would have to hit it in the stern and disable the rudder or screw. It's made to take hits in the side.
Doris Miller? WTF??
"The U.S. Navy says it will name an aircraft carrier after Doris "Dorie" Miller, the African American mess attendant who heroically leapt into combat during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It marks the first time that an aircraft carrier has been named for an African American, and the first time a sailor has been so honored for actions taken as an enlisted man."
You could have graduated from the navel academy in 2014 and be half way through your career by the time this ship was ready.
Same could be said for CVN 65 and CVN 68. Read some history, my dude.
Nimitz us close to end of life also. If you were on a carrier before and Nimitz was in early service you may have timed out also.
Oh god more war power
nice boat.. is it immune to nukes?
I'm not trying to be an ass. But a boat is a submarine, a ship is a surface vessle accirding to the navy. Just saying....
Now….off to Russia
Most expensive ao far....
Should be given a Lady's name. That would speed things up.
Energy weapons will provide tremendous protection against all airborne missiles.
How quickly is it depreciating? No wonder we as a nation can't afford medical care and education for all our citizens .
I wonder if a hundred missiles fired at it at once could be stopped. There's some doubt now.
red hypersonic missile take care of these
Old news
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Hypersonic missiles render this obsolete.
One tactical nuke, gone.
One Zircon hypersonic hit and it’s out of commission. A Russia Project 22350 frigate (3 in service and more under construction) can carry upwards of 64 of those. The day of the big carrier (or any large surface boat for that matter) is over.
Bullshit, they overadvertised hypersonics look ant kindzals al least 83% shot down by missile defence. Carriers are fast and in constant movement and hypersonics are too fast to change course well into the flight only small corrections can be made, first launch has to be perfect. And i bet 1 wont destroy such a well designed ship. Maybe a few. Obvious russian propaganda
Hypersonics are only fast in the upper atmosphere and slow down to regular missile speed before collision with a target and Russian hypersonic missiles aren’t even true hypersonics.
Yeah we shit down a bunch of thir hypersonic missiles already. Not worried.
Just like it only took two cruise missiles to sink Moskva.
you compare a russian cruiser to the biggest carrier ever? (enterprise was longer but lower tonnage) lol
Remember the Bismarck
For some reason it reminds me of last years of nazis tank programms. Big, super heavy and pointless.
Yamato you got sunk. You served in ww2 to see German tanks in action I take it?
😂 Promo*SM
Ready to Sink😂
The narrator multiplies every R at least four times. In a video about an airrrrcraft carrierrrrrr called Forrrrrrd this is rrrrrreally annoying
I hope they’re not going to be this slow when it comes to a war.
Reminds me of all the huge battleships they built between the wars, only to find out they were obsolete by WW2. There are too many threats and we relay on these platforms too much to power project...... and we can't afford to keep them operational. US national debt 32T and counting. Debt to GDP 121%.
Ready to be sunk
I would love to see you try it.
@@Sandhill1988 lol empire of terrorist. Getting screwd by your gov and still proud of it. How's your exchange rate now huh? Did you check how much bonus did some people made for approving a vessel? 😉
@@Sandhill1988 hypersonic appears to win every time, your pentagon even admitted to having no current means to stop them look it up, carrier don't make it to the fight sorry
@@Sandhill1988cope is the new opioid addiction hitting the US!!!
and it will never even make it to the fight, hypersonic missile's seem to be unstoppable, your pentagon even admitted to having no means to stop them currently. still an amazing carrier though!
Hypersonic missiles are not only stoppable they have been stopped.
Yes, even our old Patriot system has downed the “unstoppable “ missiles from Russia..
"Laser"
@@oldben6086 but there is one nuance🤣🤣🤣
I don't think the Pentagon would admit it if it is true. Keep em quessing.
And one of Old Vlad Hypersonic Missile and a new big reef is born!
you pretend as if it will even manage to get 30 miles close to the carrier without getting shot down 😂
Russian hypersonic missiles are about as accurate as the V2 was in 1944.
Now look what you've done! Creating new cope addicts! Not nice!!!
How come the Chinese can turn like two of these out in a week?
LOL the quality of anything they build is nothing in comparison .
Because China has 3× the amount of large scale shipyards. Which is why they have been able to build so many ships.
Four times the labor force. However, the quality and forethought is lacking in chinaman boat.
Just compare their tonnage, size, quality, tech, crew training, maintenance, and etc. And you'll see why
because all of their “carriers” are garbage and will sink if you even look at it 😊
The price tag will make a big difference when it’s lying on the ocean floor after being sunk by torpedoes made in the 70s
One Russian hypersonic missile! Boom 💥 good night Irene!!