{"id":38418,"date":"2020-09-14T17:49:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/09\/14\/heres-when-the-navy-thinks-the-carrier-ford-will-be-able-to-deploy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T23:01:39","slug":"heres-when-the-navy-thinks-the-carrier-ford-will-be-able-to-deploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2020\/09\/14\/heres-when-the-navy-thinks-the-carrier-ford-will-be-able-to-deploy\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s when the US Navy thinks the carrier Ford will be ready to deploy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Navy is working to improve the reliability of the new aircraft launch and recovery systems as the service pushes its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2020\/07\/23\/the-us-navy-is-making-progress-on-the-carrier-fords-bedeviling-weapons-elevators\/\" target=_blank>newest and most expensive aircraft carrier<\/a> toward its first deployment, the head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2020\/09\/11\/maintenance-delays-are-blood-in-the-water-for-aircraft-carrier-critics-admiral-says\/\" target=_blank>Naval Air Forces Atlantic<\/a> said Sept. 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rear Adm. 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The Advanced Weapons Elevators, designed to reduce the time it takes to get bombs armed and to the flight deck to mount on aircraft, have been troublesome and contributed to the downfall of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2019, Spencer announced he\u2019d told the president that if the weapons elevators aren\u2019t functioning by midsummer, then the president should fire him. But within months Spencer had to admit that the weapons elevators would not be finished until the end of 2021 or maybe 2022, which he blamed on Huntington Ingalls Industries for a lack of adequate communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest hiccup came in June in the form of a fault in the power supply system to the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, which is replacing the steam catapult system on Nimitz-class carriers. 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