[rfp1234]

They’ll have to install urinals.

[right way right]

If the sailors didn’t have to change their shorts then the Ford is probably fine.
No change.

[pepsi_junkie]

Live shock testing is always done on the second ship of a new class. It's not unusual. It's to see how they'd hold up if a nearby mine blew. They also do shock inspections on every new ship (I used to do them) to find things that might break, come loose, etc. And just about every electrical or mechanical item on the ship has been smashed with a giant "shock hammer" to see if it would fly to pieces and redesign it if it does. Some gear has to just not fly apart, other stuff has to keep working all through the explosion. I'll tell you this: Just about anything you could buy on Amazon will shatter if you hit it with that hammer "as-is". We spend a lot of time repackaging everything into racks with shock absorbents and sway braces and all sorts of things to keep the equipment inside safe for operation and for the crew.

People who don't understand that this is how military systems are built get upset when they hear about some item costing $25,000 when they can get it on Amazon for $999. Well, it aint quite the same thing after all. The $999 one dies if you drop it. The $25,0000 one survives explosions and can handle electromagnetic pulse attacks. But other than that, yeah, same thing.

[DakotaGator]

Will the Navy need to change the USS Ford after ‘shock trials’ of bomb explosions?

What an idiotic headline. The answer is that no one knows until after the shock trials have been completed and results analyzed. That's why the Navy conducts shock trials!

This would have been a much better article had it been constructed as an informative article. As it is, it contains good information. But some editor tried to turn it into hysteria instead of reason.

[doorgunner69]

I was involved in the first (or one of the first) MILSTAR installations on a ship. Doing all the waveguide install and test.

Never been on a navy ship before, and was quite taken by all the electronics boxes mounted on spring shock isolators.

I got the clear idea that they took shock very seriously. A few years later I was on a brand new Aegis cruiser (Valley Forge, IIRC) for a few days of EMC testing. I forgot to check out how they had a newer ship set up for shock.

[Daaave]

USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN-71)

[BTCM]

The comments here reflect the knowledge of the commentators -—those who know and have experience and those just bitching about something of which they know not one damned thing.

[Chode]

[GreenLanternCorps]

IIRC, Kaga was sunk at Midway by one hit and two near misses by 500 lb bombs.