Archived material Access restricted Article
Rantburg

Today's Front Page   View All of Fri 02/23/2018 View Thu 02/22/2018 View Wed 02/21/2018 View Tue 02/20/2018 View Mon 02/19/2018 View Sun 02/18/2018 View Sat 02/17/2018
1
2018-02-23 Science
Deploy the Gerald R. Ford ASAP
Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 Given the recent episodes I would recommend doubling the testing rather than attempting half.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-02-23 00:26||   2018-02-23 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Remember the Hubble Mirror problem? Recall the Liberty Weld Failures problem?
Theory does not guard against the Unknown-Unknown Problem.
Posted by magpie 2018-02-23 00:42||   2018-02-23 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 EMALS is just not ready or correct. It needs elastic cabability
Posted by newc 2018-02-23 01:25||   2018-02-23 01:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, they can deploy it to the Korean Peninsula, where they can us the catapult railgun to bombard the Norks with F-18's.
Load up all the old Navy planes from storage at Luke and squirt away.
Posted by ed in texas 2018-02-23 08:47||   2018-02-23 08:47|| Front Page Top

#5 newc, a shitload rubber bands?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2018-02-23 10:36||   2018-02-23 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Difficult to get more precise than that Deacon.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-02-23 13:18||   2018-02-23 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 ed in texas. Fire old Japanese Zero's to confuse the hell out of everyone. Put out garbled communications about time distortions at the same time.

Deny everything afterwards and/or blame Hollywood.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-02-23 14:20||   2018-02-23 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 "newc, a shitload rubber bands?"
Kind of. The steam catapult did not jerk the planes as hard to make stress fractures in them. The lifecycle has to be built around the EMALS launching system.
Posted by newc 2018-02-23 18:52||   2018-02-23 18:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Test the catapult using Chevy Chase?
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2018-02-23 22:24||   2018-02-23 22:24|| Front Page Top

23:32 Injun Bucket8891
22:59 JohnQC
22:56 JohnQC
22:53 JohnQC
22:44 JohnQC
22:41 JohnQC
22:38 JohnQC
22:24 Anomalous Sources
21:54 newc
21:47 Frank G
21:44 rammer
21:10 Elmerert Hupens2660
20:46 Frank G
20:42 Frank G
20:41 Frank G
20:40 Frank G
20:39 Anomalous Sources
20:38 Anomalous Sources
20:36 Anomalous Sources
20:24 Frank G
20:16 Frank G
20:14 Frank G
19:41 g(r)omgoru
19:37 swksvolFF









Paypal:
Google
Search WWW Search rantburg.com