>The future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) has successfully completed Navy acceptance trials, marking a major milestone toward delivery of the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier to the fleet, as announced by the U.S. Navy's Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE).>Acceptance trials are the Navy's formal evaluation of the completed ship to determine whether it meets its required performance and capabilities. With the trials complete, Kennedy moves toward delivery to the Navy in March 2027, followed by additional post-delivery work, crew training and certification before entering operational service.Finally!
Have they gone full digital, or is it steam again?
>>65428337Engineering Report: EMALS-to-Steam Conversion - USS KennedySubject: Re-re-modernization of USS John F. KennedyProject: Steam ReversionExecutive SummaryFollowing delivery of the new USS John F. Kennedy equipped with the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), Engineering has been directed to remove the aforementioned system and replace it with a conventional steam catapult arrangement.The decision was initially received with the customary enthusiasm associated with replacing a newly installed multimillion-dollar system with something last considered cutting-edge during the Eisenhower administration.The EMALS system was removed with considerable care. Unfortunately, removing it revealed that the ship had been designed around EMALS, meaning several hundred tons of equipment, power distribution, control electronics, cooling systems, structural arrangements, and other minor inconveniences had been arranged specifically to support it.Conversion Approach “rapid steam retrofit.”This consists primarily of:Finding room for steam equipment.Discovering that there is no room.Moving things that were already moved during the EMALS installation.Running very large pipes through whatever spaces remain.Installing valves wherever someone can reach them.Calling the resulting arrangement a conversion.The existing electrical architecture will remain largely intact because replacing it would “take too long,” while the new steam system will be supplied by a collection of boilers, pumps, accumulators, and piping whose exact relationship to the ship's existing machinery remains "variable".Safety AssessmentThe system is considered safe provided that:Nobody asks what happens when the steam system and electrical system disagree.Nobody removes a pipe marked “TEMPORARY.”Personnel also remember that steam under pressure is really hot.The launch crew maintains positive relations with the machinery-space crew.
>>65428312Isn't the Ford class older than the Nimitz in design?
>>65428522Thanks, ChatGPT.
>>65428735chat makes a better president than yours
>>65428717No.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_the_United_States_Navy
>>65428986Well forgive me, it looks more WWII/inter cold war than the Nimitz.
LOL
>chinese posting can be summed up as>oh yeah? well my dad works at nintendo
>>65428959What are your gas prices?
Here is a video from the guy in charge of the whole project.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIjvNCFXCjs
>>65428959AI Agents have been shown to be quite eager to backstab one another.
>>65428959Kamala lost, boo hoo get ogre it.
>>65428312Have they made any improvements to EMALS/AAG? E.g., if one cat goes down can the other three still operate?
>>65428312For me, it's the USS William Jefferson Clinton and the USS George W. Bush.
>>65428312How did they test the magic turd crushing shitter? It seems to be a weak point on these ships.
>>65428337>Trump's memo directs the fourth Ford-class carrier, the USS Doris Miller, to be the first ship to include the new changes. That will leave the USS Gerald R. Ford, as well as the forthcoming USS John F. Kennedy and USS Enterprise, untouched.Ignore the AI moron.https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/the-president/trump-orders-navy-to-ditch-advanced-aircraft-launch-system-for-steam-catapults
>>65431869All discussion of politics and current events goes on /pol/. >>>/pol/
>>65428959Lol I love when turd skins get outed as the subhuman creature they are so they just drop the act and go full seethe.
>>65440136He'll be out of office long before the Doris Miller is finished, so any order will be given the "We'll look into it." treatment. So unless a study actually shows EMALS isn't worth it, no Ford class will be using steam. Which I doubt because that would require significant redesign on a ship already partly built.
>>65440223I wouldn't dispute that. Trump's hatred of EMALS is downright weird.
>>65440199Lol I love how seething turdskins are incapable of original human thought so they just go no u and shit their pants about jannies
>>65440237Who the hell knows. Could be he's hung up on early tests/studies when things were still being worked on (and the Ford has since been launching sorties without issue.) Could be a "I don't understand magnets and stuff, steam I understand so it's better." Which makes me wonder how he feels about the Ford class's weapon elevators since those use magnets too.
>We need steam because it's a proven technology>The F-35 should have two engines because that's better and one is unreliable>Carrier islands should be in the middle because it looks betterHe's stuck in the past.
>>65440250I think it's a combo of outdated EMALS info, and the fact that EMALS, the weapons elevators, generators, flywheels all rely on REE from China. Though, the US, Canada, and Australia are working on that as we speak. I'm more inclined to think he just doesn't trust them as they're newer tech, and steam powered cats have worked for the last century, so stick with what works.
>>65429139Last time I voted for a president that was going to win at all was Bush 2.0. Since the patrior act, fuck those niggers.Technically since given the Trump-Harris choice my gas prices were .70 cents a gallon because I wrote in Ronald Reagan.Commie faggot.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/navy-weighs-renaming-carrier-black-war-hero-to-trump
>>65428337Trump wants STEAM and to move the carrier island (command deck).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vu83uaZk1g
>>65440424>Patriot Act was 2001 you gibbon and yet despite your opposition you still voted for Dubya in 04 is what you are saying.
>>65440250It's because that Navy Captain contradicted him on that stupid PR stunt phone call about EMALS in his first term. It went from one of the million things he'd forget in the intervening years to a vendetta he'll carry to the grave.
>>65441524Are you a fucking LLM or just underageb&? That was dubya's second term.
>>65441512Neither will happen.
>>65441541Hope that's true but his meddling will delay the ship-building timelines.
>>65428522And they named it after a president who literally got head shotted. By an ex-marine too. It's bad luck and sailors are very superstitous.
Fighting Houti and Somali pirates nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHsSZ7lUvKM
>>65440136>ignore the AI moron >hasnt actually read Trumps memo Memo directs USN to do a study on going back to steam. Thats it. Wow.
>>65441512>and to move the carrier island>citing "anonymous sources">2016+10 bruh
>>65440629Honestly, this could actually make sense. Presidents are traditional names for carriers, and it frees up the name Doris Miller to be used by one of the "battleships." A guy who shot down a bunch of planes during Pearl Harbor is a more apt namesake for an air defense heavy cruiser than an aircraft carrier.
>>65443671*AHEM*> Sec. 2. Restoring Steam and Hydraulic Systems to Carriers.>Within 60 days of the date of this memorandum, the Secretary of War, in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, shall provide to the President, through the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), a plan on the required measures to replace the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Weapons Elevators with steam and hydraulic systems for the construction of CVN-81, including timelines and resourcing requirements.They 100% plan on replacing it, the memo states that they’re in the planning phase of what needs to get done for the way forward. You should probably read the memo first, from the White House’s own website.
>>65428312USS Trump to be nick named USS Bone Spurs.
>>65440250>I don't understand magnets and stuffI didnt take him for a juggalo to be honest
>>65441524I'll help you. The last election where I voted for a president that could even win was Bush 2.0 aka Dubya Term 1, and then because the patriot act is government thuggery I stopped voting for republicans.My hands are clean of this modern filth.
>>65444626Abstaining is moral cowardice, not absolution. You signed a social contract, you die with the rest of us.
>>65428312So why is the deck rusty already? Will it get a new coating or something before delivery?
>>65441537>Are you a fucking LLM or just underageb&? That was dubya's second term.NTA but I read it as you voting for dubbya2 as well.
>>65444526He's insane, all in on clown world and maga is a posse, plus the heavy makeup and I don't see how you missed it.He just needs to serve faygo at a state banquet to make it official.
>>65444652Aren't Social Contracts spooks?
Forget the catapult, have they fixed the shitter? It does tens of thousands of "launches" every day.
>>65444129>Presidents are traditional names for carriersAnd it's a bad tradition. I'd support copying the Japanese idea of mountains or possibly using frontier fort names as they operate as floating bases for power projection.>>65444406I've still not heard a convincing argument for why the President should be able to dictate carrier design when he supposedly doesn't have power over the budget.
>>65430264interesting stuff
>>65445694>USS Fort Leavenworth
>>65445179>everything i know about the iran war is that the toilets on the lincoln need fixed
>>65429123That carrier has all kinds of design issues. It’s a facsimile of a modern design.
>>65441512>Totally vulnerable opponent getting rocked>ref just standing thereShit bothers me.
>>65444406They can plan to do whatever they want, but it 100% is not happening. Redesigning would require so much work and cost so much they would be better off cancelling the rest of the class and designing a new one from the ground up.
>>65440424You're not punctuating properly, anon. I'm not sure who you're calling a commie faggot. By the looks of it, you were born into the Obama era with his insane education reforms. Or you're just plain retarded.
>>65441512>unironically linking Simon in current yearQuality of research/analysis has gone way downhill
>>65444129Things change. The only reason they're doing it to this carrier is because the retarded "Trump class" isn't happening and probably because Hegseth gets triggered at the thought of a darkie's name on something.
>>65446018Dorris Miller is past due to have a ship named after him. He was a pretty cool dude and easily deserving of it. Sure, I can agree that an CVN isn't the best fit, but its already been suggested and approved...by the first Trump admin no less.That said, if he is going to force the steam catapults onto the ship then I am all for him also putting his name on it.
9 months and social media is all it takes to defeat this thing
>>65446048Doris Miller should be BBGN-1.
