Media: the Newest US aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford was unfit for combat

The latest and the most expensive in us history, the aircraft carrier gerald r. Ford was unfit for combat, according to bloomberg, citing documents the U.S. Navy. According to the agency, not long ago, the ship was "With great pomp" transferred to the U.S. Navy and earned the praise of U.S.

President Donald Trump. After two weeks it turned out that gerald r. Ford is unable to perform the basic function — to receive and send fighters. According to the documents, because of the need to eliminate technical problems the price of the arresting gear system (capable of receiving aircraft during landing) increased from 301 million to 961 million dollars, reports RIA Novosti early june, the U.S. Navy received a new aircraft carrier gerald r.

Ford, which cost $ 13 billion and is the most expensive warship in the world. Thus, according to the Pentagon, the ship will be ready for full-scale operation only in 2020. By the time the ship needs to make several trips for the "Running" of combat and engineering systems. This is not the first problem with the latest us warships. Last autumn, immediately after leaving the shipyard broke a high-tech destroyer invisible uss zumwal. The breakage was not the only problem the uss zumwalt.

The ship was very expensive to operate, even by the standards of the us army. So, one shot from a unique gun, which is equipped with destroyer, manages the budget of 800 thousand dollars if the cost of the ship to 4. 4 billion.