Americas Most Expensive Aircraft Carrier Doesnt Work ProperlyBy Joshua Krause According to a Defense Department memo that was obtained by Bloomberg, the ships arresting gear, which is designed to catch landing aircraft, cant be used more than 25 times without failing. The launching system cant be used more than 400 times without needing maintenance. Weapon elevators cant lift munitions, and the radar is problematic. If the USS Gerald R. Ford were deployed to combat, it would quickly live up to its namesake (i.e. it would put itself in danger on a regular basis.) So how much did this wonderful ship cost? So far its up to $12.9 billion, which is $2.9 billion over budget. Thats in addition to $4.7 billion spent on research and development. Once the ship is finally completed, whenever that may be, the US Navy plans to build two more. And once again, the military-industrial complex reaps billions of tax dollars, and delivers utter crap. Image Credit: Anthony Freda Joshua Krause is a reporter, writer and researcher at The Daily Sheeple. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and is a freelance writer and author. You can follow Joshuas reports at Facebook or on his personal Twitter. Joshuas website is Strange Danger. Wasnt President Ford a dud too? If they were going to spend that much money on something that didnt work they should have named it after a black guy. The problem with the USA is they dont build anything anymore, thats right take a look at how much off shoring of jobs left the USA and where it is made now mostly in China.And China is putting out close to 10,000 engineers a year along with 1500 PHDs.Russias education system is three times advanced as US colleges and look at how advance both China and Russia are in military tech compared to the US and for a fraction of the cost and now that Russia and China are going to combine there military tech with each other there wont be a country on the planet that can come close to there advancement in military hardware. Both China and Russia have a missile that can go out in space and take out all of US military satellites in space. What would all that hardware be able to do if it can receive instruction.Useless! Do we have any more steel mills in America that provide the steel for our ships or are we using Chinese or other counties to provide it.There was a time in America when our manufacturing was tops in the world,but then we started closing steel mills, now they are after coal,and recycling is how we are to save America? Name the forrestal and no one will say a thing. Russia did the same when it kicked out the Bolsheviks who killed the Czar and family, screwed up the Soviet Union, and slaughtered millions and sent more to the Gulags. It took the Russian Christian leaders over 60 years, but they did it, and guess where the Bolshevik families went to? They were welcomed with open arms by the Rockefeller brothers. In appreciation of that gesture, the Bolsheviks murdered 2 of the brothers, and then set up their Think Tanks. Using the US as a base, they are now intent on dining on the fatted calf (USA), and destroying the planet (their Samson option). Think Fukushima was a natural disaster? Think 9/11 was a Saudi job? Think Aceh tsunami was a natural disaster? Think MH370 was pilot error? Think MH17 was a Russian shoot down? Think Hillary is a Democrat? I could go in and on Well, with your insightful/accurate/well thought out comment, I no longer need to feel so completely alone any longer. Who writes the contracts where we receive crap, but pay full price anyway? Perhaps they should change its name. It seems to be acting just like the president who couldnt walk and chew gum at the same time! 