And This Is Just One Of The Reasons The USS Gerald R Ford Is Gonna Cost $40 Billion Dollars

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Can you belive it? One fucking aircraft carrier costs almost 2/3 of the price of those 187 expensive $355 million dollar F-22s.




EMALS hopes for first shot before Christmas
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Dec 9, 2010 6:58:59 EST

The Electro-magnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is a critical piece of technology that will be installed in the new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, the first of which is now under construction. If the system isn’t ready in time, the Navy would have to revert to older steam catapults to launch aircraft from the ships, a move that would mean costly delays and redesigns.

[saigon68]

1. The MI Complex at work

[hobbit709]

2. That $40 billion would almost pay for the unemployment extension.

But we need new and better ways of killing people more than we need to take care of our own.

[unhappycamper]

3. I think $40 billion is a bit much, if you consider that the Nimitz-class carriers cost 'only'

$4.5 billion dollars. The last Nimitz-class built, the G.H.W Bu$h, cost $6.8 billion dollars because of overtime.

They wanted poppy to christen it before he goes to meet his maker.

[MindPilot]

5. That $40B turns into a lot of paychecks.

There seems to be this idea that defense spending is money that just vanishes into the ether. While there is certainly an argument that it could be more productively spent on things progressives would find more socially acceptable, the fact is defense contractors take that money and use it to pay people to design and build stuff. Literally, it creates jobs.

And oftentimes these kinds of new technologies will ultimately filter down to civilian applications.

[Blue_Tires]

4. i thought years ago there was going to be some re-evaluation

of pentagon spending with respect to the changing nature of warfare...Does anyone anticipate another Leyte Gulf (or anything close to it) in the next 50 years?