{"id":279,"date":"2016-08-30T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T22:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-08-30T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T22:24:33","slug":"us-navys-new-gerald-ford-carrier-class-under-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"US Navy&#8217;s new Gerald Ford carrier class under review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy, August 30 &#8212; US Navy&#8217;s latest Gerald Ford-class aircraft carrier project under review by Pentagon. Among cited issues are &#8220;performance of key systems aboard&#8221; reports USNI (via August 23 memo obtained by USNI).<\/p>\n<p>Estimated cost is $12.8 billion according to\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/the-russian-navys-5-most-deadly-weapons-war-12845\" target=\"_blank\">nationalinterest.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The article continues listing some of the project related issues citing &#8220;Transformation&#8221; doctrine of early 2000s under which many latest, bleeding-edge systems were to be used &#8211; and unproven.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting how this particular project review coincides with the fact that\u00a0Russian 3M22 Zircon anti-ship hypersonic (speeds mach 5-6) missiles\u00a0are to go into serial production in 2018. Read this as a system of direct <em><strong>threat to entire carrier groups<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These are newest generation of anti-ship missiles as an addition to already vast Russian arsenal. See P-800 Oniks\/Yakhont, Brahmos, etc. These are some of the issues to think about.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2016\/08\/30\/pentagon-conducting-new-review-ford-carrier-program\" target=\"_blank\">USNI<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy, August 30 &#8212; US Navy&#8217;s latest Gerald Ford-class aircraft carrier project under review by Pentagon. Among cited issues are &#8220;performance of key systems aboard&#8221; reports USNI (via August 23 memo obtained by USNI). Estimated cost is $12.8 billion according to\u00a0nationalinterest.org The article continues listing some of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partialmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}