Article Link! The US Navy Can't Get Its Cutting Edge Advanced Arresting Gear System To Work Reliably

bkbrno said:
Arresting gear was on Mk7. Six versions before the Nimitz class gear. However, going to 3 wires was a stupid move. With 60+ years of experience, 4 wires across the deck proved a really good number. Redundancy when one or two went down, maximum chances to get aboard with the last chance 4 wire. I have personally come aboard with only one wire across the deck because the other 3 arresting gear were down.

One thing is for sure, computer simulations of the designs and real world are two different things. I'm not sure CAD software can account for an 18yo Seaman Apprentice maintaining and operation said equipment. The money isn't there to build something land based and test it out long term so it gets built and tested on a ship in real time. The Ford has not launched 10 planes in a row into the water so it can't be that bad.
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I didn't know they went to three wires! Yeah, that seems stupid. I wonder what the thinking was there.

I like new tech. But I like PROVEN and RELIABLE tech (even if old) better.
 
That's what I heard. Less stuff to maintain and less room used up down below.

I guess it allowed the female officer berthing to expand so they could at least have something condo sized and their own bathroom. I was on the first cruise with females. They got 2 man, sorry 2 person, berths. The men were in 4 to 8 man rooms. Sour grapes and not a very popular decision with the male officers.
 
bkbrno said:
That's what I heard. Less stuff to maintain and less room used up down below.

I guess it allowed the female officer berthing to expand so they could at least have something condo sized and their own bathroom. I was on the first cruise with females. They got 2 man, sorry 2 person, berths. The men were in 4 to 8 man rooms. Sour grapes and not a very popular decision with the male officers.
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I love women. But mixed company on a war ship??? What could possibly go wrong? In my time, no women on the carrier.
 
One cruise without women, next cruise with. Very different.

Actually, the first cruise had 5 female Midshipmen on summer cruise. They were supposed to depart at the next port call. Emergency call to the Persian Gulf an hour before pulling into port. They were supposed to be aboard for 2 weeks. Now it was going to be a month before they could get back to the beach. Lets just say they didn't come prepared for a month at sea and the ship was not supplied to handle female things. The COD guys had to make an urgent supply mission to accommodate the up coming supply needs.

Towards the end of that cruise at least one or two females a week has to depart due to being pregnant. All the result of hook ups with locals during port calls they said. We had two port calls the whole cruise. The math didn't work out but whatever.
 

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