It is reported that after the launch of my country's 003 Fujian aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy is not to be left behind. This year, it will start the electromagnetic ejection test of the second Ford-class aircraft carrier "Kennedy". This represents the existing U.S. The electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier will add a new Kennedy in addition to the Ford . Some people believe that the United States was unhappy after seeing China's electromagnetic catapult aircraft carrier launched and believed that its limelight had been overpowered, so it started the electromagnetic catapult test of the USS Kennedy aircraft carrier.
is an aircraft carrier of the Ford-class aircraft carrier . It has a displacement of 110,000 tons and uses the most advanced technology of the US military. According to the plan, the US military will build 11 such aircraft carriers to replace the previous ones. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier will ensure that the US military can still maintain its position as the global maritime hegemon in the next fifty years. Originally, according to the normal plan, this aircraft carrier would have been officially launched into service in the past few years. However, due to the impact of various factors such as the epidemic and the economic downturn, the service time of this aircraft carrier has been continuously postponed; especially due to this Because this aircraft carrier uses too much advanced technology, like the previous Zumwalt destroyer, the various advanced equipment on it cannot be integrated together, and some problems continue to occur.
Like the USS Ford, the first ship of the Ford-class aircraft carrier, although it has been in service for several years, it has not yet conducted combat readiness duty. The main reason is that the electromagnetic ejection system, lifting system, and arrester recovery system on the Ford have many problem; this is directly related to whether the aircraft carrier can exert its due combat effectiveness. If the problems of these three systems are not solved, then no matter how advanced the aircraft carrier is, but there is no carrier-based aircraft that can take off, it will just be a piece of cake. iron lumps floating on the sea. In order to solve these problems, the Ford aircraft carrier has been regularly undergoing various tests and equipment adjustments in the shipyard since it entered service.
However, this time the USS Kennedy is definitely more advanced than the USS Ford. Maybe the reliability and maturity of the weapons and equipment on the USS Kennedy are much higher than that of the USS Ford. After all, the previous USS Ford After testing for so long, no matter what problems there are, they should be solved. The rest may be minor problems. However, the most important electromagnetic ejection system seems to have not been solved yet. As a new generation aircraft carrier, the application of electromagnetic ejection technology is revolutionary. If the aircraft carrier cannot use this technology, it will be no different from the previous aircraft carriers. Before this, the US military had announced that the USS Ford aircraft carrier had achieved initial combat capability. So what is the level of this initial combat capability? Just look at the USS Ford aircraft carrier report submitted by the U.S. Navy to Congress.
In this dozens-page report, it was written that the Ford aircraft carrier averaged 50 take-offs and landings per day, successfully took off and landed aircraft 6,500 times, and completed more than 840 ejection take-offs and landings in one month. and arrested landings, has broken new records, and completed 5,700 launch and recovery experiments within 6 sea cycles. I believe many people will think that the Ford's problem has been solved after seeing this, but in fact he did not say the number of successes. In the following description, the Ford aircraft carrier conducted a total of 8,157 times during the independent voyage event. Carrier aircraft ejection experiments, and the average failure cycle reliability of the electromagnetic ejection device is 272 times, which means that the Ford will have a failure every 272 carrier-based aircraft ejections on average, and the previous design indicator for it was 4166 times. It didn't even meet the 10% requirement; as for the aircraft carrier's arresting device, it was even more outrageous. In 8,157 carrier-based aircraft landing experiments, the average failure cycle reliability was 41 times, while the original design indicator for it was 16,500 times. Let alone 1%, it has not even reached 0.5%.
But even so, the U.S. Congress still wants to build a large number of this type of aircraft carriers, and has issued an order prohibiting the government from reducing the number of aircraft carriers for various reasons. The number of Ford-class aircraft carriers must be at least 10, and there can only be more. Can not be less.Although with the continuous development of science and technology, many countries no longer have to be beaten when facing aircraft carriers at sea. They can launch various missiles to attack them. However, the offensive and defensive capabilities of aircraft carriers are also improving accordingly. This is even more obvious for big countries. The U.S. Aegis system can be said to be able to intercept all attacks from other countries except China and Russia. And if you want to conduct ocean operations and large-scale dispatches at sea, you cannot do without a large comprehensive combat platform such as an aircraft carrier. Therefore, the United States will start the electromagnetic ejection experiment of the USS Kennedy in order to solve the problems on the Ford-class aircraft carrier as soon as possible. , thereby ensuring that its position as maritime supremacy remains unshakable.
