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Cost Overruns On USS Gerald Ford Could Top $1 Billion
Outside The Beltway ^
| 1/2/2012
| Doug Mataconis
Posted on 02/25/2012 7:20:13 PM PST by U-238
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:20:23 PM PST
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U-238
To: U-238
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:22:31 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: U-238
From that photo, I can’t believe how far back they have moved the island.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:26:55 PM PST
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microgood
To: U-238
From that photo, I can’t believe how far back they have moved the island.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:27:06 PM PST
by
microgood
To: U-238
Chicken feed. Pocket change. Obama’s energy secretary blows that much on some green energy scam just about every day.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:32:33 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
I agree. Its nothing compared to other cost overruns.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:36:34 PM PST
by
U-238
To: microgood
From that photo, I cant believe how far back they have moved the island. Yeah ... much further astern. The island typically is slightly abaft the beam. Sorry ... for you land lubbers ... that's slightly towards the stern from mid-ship. The stern is the opposite end of the pointy end of the carrier.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:36:39 PM PST
by
BluH2o
To: BluH2o
Us zoomies appreciate the explanation. ;)
/johnny
To: microgood
From that photo, I cant believe how far back they have moved the island. Considering how some planes react when coming in too low {hitting the round down with the landing gear} I would not want to be back there. It looks like something just waiting to be hit.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:46:38 PM PST
by
cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
To: U-238
Still to come: a billion dollars worth of islam-, gay-, and racial-sensitivity training for all crew, contractors, and vendors.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:50:16 PM PST
by
Dagnabitt
("None of the above" ain't running.)
To: U-238; SunkenCiv; TheOldLady
To: U-238
Some people don’t like Gerald Ford, but I do and consider him a patriot.
He lost the presidency to the freak Jimmy “Don’t bite me Mr. Bunny” Carter so Ronald Reagan could be elected in 1980 by a landslide.
Mr. Ford, by his intuitive sacrifice, gave us Reagan and that makes him an okay guy in my book.
To: U-238
3 questions.
What was the cost of steel when the contract was awarded?
What was the cost of gasoline, diesel, acetylyine, welding rod, and union labor health benefits when the contract was awarded?
If the items in the first two questions are more expensive, why is that?
Class dismissed.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:56:33 PM PST
by
Tailback
To: U-238
the first ship of every new class of warship hits cost overruns. the efficiencies come later.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:58:07 PM PST
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: cva66snipe
I think it will be an easier deck to run because your parking areas aren't split by the island. I also would be surprised if they turned that area in the back into the "Hummer" hole to keep the props away from the rest of the deck. You also don't have as much stuff between the island (where the ACLS gear is) and the ramp.
I am also guessing carrier qual will be easier to manage simultaneous launch and recovery, but that has little to do with deployed operations.
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posted on
02/25/2012 7:58:38 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: U-238
No biggie, just have Pharaoh Obama steal another $500 Billion from Medicare to cover it.
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posted on
02/25/2012 8:04:35 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Liberals, Useful Idiots Voting for Useless Idiots...)
To: Tailback
It looks like Northrop Grumman Corporation Shipbuilding section is providing the steel.
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posted on
02/25/2012 8:06:43 PM PST
by
U-238
To: U-238
Worst thing in article: the next carrier is CVN-79, which will be named the John F. Kennedy.
Can’t we stop the naming of a carrier after a pill popping lech? He had a carrier already.This is as bad a the USS Gabrielle Giffords and the USS John R. Murtha.
Two ships I hope never exist: The USS William J. Clinton and the USS Barack H. Obama.
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posted on
02/25/2012 8:12:10 PM PST
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemies of freedom. We have ideas-the Dems only have ideology.)
To: microgood
From that photo, I cant believe how far back they have moved the island.
Moving the island aft creates deck space for a centralized re-arming and re-fueling location
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posted on
02/25/2012 8:12:40 PM PST
by
Rooivalk
To: exit82
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posted on
02/25/2012 8:21:16 PM PST
by
U-238
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