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This is old news, like about two years ago. The EMLS, AAG issues have long been known with fixes and workarounds in place. There’s always going to be bugs that need correction with new highly complex systems.

No "STEAM" catapaults on the USS G.R. Ford! Magnetic catapaults only.

i serve on the ford, we out preform the nimitz class in every way

Oh B.S.! The USS Roosevelt was resupplied every few days. No ship, especially a CVN could go 5 months solo

Yeah, physics are indeed a problem. New system with bugs? You don't say! Sounds like pretty normal stuff to me. Sounds like a lot of hype in the tag line. 🙄

Doesn't sound like a GIANT problem to me................

Wow, this is one of the most poorly informed military videos I've ever seen, and there are some terrible ones out there!

A new ship design loaded with lots of new and advanced technology is going to have growing pains. It’s how we advance the level of innovation in engineering and unseen problems will normally emerge. Modifications will be developed and implemented in this hull and all succeeding hulls. This is nothing unusual in is actually planned for. Go Navy. Fly Navy!

You should mention that all the vessels around the GRF Aircraft Carrier have a little something to do with how it can maintain operations at sea. Just a little.

You are so Ill-advised, Ms Informed, with every Inaccurate information it's mirror's your Title. Beyond Facts .

"The most fearsome ship prowling the oceans.." But also a nice big fat target for all sorts of hypersonic carrier busting missiles. For the price of the catapult on this carrier you can buy 10 of those missiles. Huge warships are obsolete and only good for a very expensive show.

Have they tried unplugging it then plugging it back in?

Bro you need to update your research The Ford is now fully operational and has exceeded daily sortie rate of Nimitz class

You are talking normal things. Debugging is always happening. It’s not like a brand new car.

Reactors dont make steam, they make hot water fed to a steam generator that makes steam.

Just imagine how smart the Captain must be to understand in a general sense all the depth in that ship and mastering the bridge.

The F-35B doesn't need a catapult.

"Fatal" design flaws? Foh

Beyond Facts is right for this channel or more correctly it should be called you got your facts wrong. The Ford does not have steam catapults, they are magnetic. If you can't even get that info right then just maybe do some videos on basket weaving or something.

Just wait till you see a C-130 take off from the deck...

Behold, the USS Drone Magnet. Sure, the carrier group can shoot down 100 cheap drones. Can it shoot down 10,000?

that is one giant sitting duck

Government contractors correcting defects yelling Mo money, mo money, mo money!

And why would you tell everyone about those flaws

I got an intimation of these problems years ago. I saw a documentary on design discussion in this ship, which showed disturbing mindset-revealing planning re the washrooms. Old-school planning is to build different-style washrooms for men and women. With urinals (men's washrooms), there are at least 4 advantages. #1 More units per washroom, since urinals can be more closely spaced than toilet cubicles. More people get cycled through faster😮, freeing people up for urgent ops. #2 Less time (in urination) at the urinals vs. doing so in a toilet cubicle. Further speeding throughput. #3 less spill mess, and less smell. #4 better hygiene (health!) and improved morale. Thus, old-school-- the increased cost of dedicated washtooms, front-loaded in budget (as construction costs), leads to multiple operational dividends (and reduced costs). The right way to do it. BUT, done in self-congratulatory (over-confident) tone, the documented discussion of "improved" and "more scientific" washroom design on this new ship--toilet cubicles only--let the design costs go down, but at the price of increased operational costs and headaches. The planners wanted themselves to look good, while not caring a fig sbout downstream headaches. Seeing this, I thought, "Oh, boy!" AND "What will be the results of this design philosophy on the other systems in this ship?" The present documentary shows further negative consequences.

What is that first graphic displaying? The Ford, no matter how impressive, is not by any metric more powerful than France. What do those bombs even represent?

whoever made this video is very uneducated on the USS Ford. The catapult and elevator issues were fixed 2 years ago. There is no carrier afloat that can be at war for 5 months without resupply. The Roosevelt was supplied every couple of days. Actually do research before posting BS!

The "Bomb Farm" is located normally behind the Island starboard side somewhere to afford its safety and for ready issue. What you referred to as the Bomb Farm here is the magazines storage areas and assembly areas. I spent 21 years as a Ships Company Aviation Ordnanceman and was an instructor to teach that NEC at Namtragrudet 4033 North Island Ca.

Secret? The power of these carriers is a secret? I don’t think so. Besides, you just told the world about this “secret”!

I saw an article in an aviation magazine about 3 pages long going into detail of all the problems with a new aircraft coming into navy service and how bad it was with lots of faults showing up, this was around the time the F18 was just entering service so people reading immediately thought it was about the recently released problems with that aircraft, however when you reached the end of the article they explained that it was taken from the into service report on the F4 Phantom, and was being used to indicate that even the best machinery often starts with problems that need fixing

2:45 the F-35B can and does do that.

Without resupply? Don't talk bollocks, she was RAS'ed (Replenish At Sea.) daily

Lets see....first all new launch and recovery system in 60 years. Power generation more than 6 times previous ship...meaning shes built to accommodate nextgen electromagnetic weapons. Streamlined operating overhead to make sizable reduction in crew size (some reports over 1000). Increased airwing capacity. Basically one of the most complex machines on the planet that "has a few bugs". The Navy is giving CVN 80 the legendary name Enterprise....they have faith in this class

I think you have the Kennedy and Nimitz stats backwards at 0:19

Alarming TAG LINE IS BUNKO.. NEXT...?

Sources for this?

Sensors failing? That's something that's fairly easily fixed by the manufacturer usually. It sounds like overall it's good, just has some minor kinks left which nonetheless don't have a severe impact on performance since parts can be replaced much more easily.

yeah, hey comms signal the enemy to pause actions while we call a contractor to repair ... expected downtime about a week but the submarine depth charge system looks good, must remember to reverse the ship as not to blow up the bow !

When a new ship of even a tried and proved design is first launched, it will have issues.

The Ford would not be deployed unless it was ready.

It has to be a miracle that the Reactor on the Ford and other ships.

The trouble is these carriers are big targets.

I’m glad I checked the comments at the start of the video.✌️

I did 90 days on the cargo team instead of galley work as a new crewman. The Nimitz took on supplies such as fuel, weapons and food often. The reactors didn't need refuel, but JP-5 fuel tanks that feed the planes sure do. Plank Owner U.S.S. Nimitz. BOHICA!

The REAL STORY after the first cruise: In 239 days underway, the ship’s crew conducted 43 underway replenishment, logged more than 17,826 flight hours and 10,396 sorties, sailed more than 83,476 nautical miles, and safely transferred 20.7 million gallons of fuel with zero mishaps. The Ford crew conducted 33,444 flight deck moves, 3,124 hangar bay aircraft moves, 2,883 aircraft elevator moves, 16,351 aircraft fueling evolutions, and transferred 8,850 pallets of cargo and mail. The Gerald R. Ford culinary team prepared and served 3.1 million meals, which included approximately 48,000 dozen eggs, 24,000 gallons of milk, 131,000 hamburgers, 367,000 pounds of chicken, and Gerald R. Ford’s favorite . . . 79,000 chocolate chip cookies. THAT is nothing to sneeze at . . . However, we still do not have a way to continue deck launch operations while working on one of the EMALS launchers.

No big deal, Every new weapon system is basically obsolete as soon or shortly after it’s deployment, The hope is that the advancements are good enough to keep the weapon relevant for long enough until the next generation comes along,

Ckick bait, the Uss Gerald R Ford has been on deployment for ayear now with no issues.

Basically what we have here is click bate.

That's "can not be overstated."

We don't want the enemy knowing what is on our aircraft carriers

Ocean water as fuel source by Eirex Tech in Canada.

That huge magnetic field must be a real challenge for both the ship and aircraft electronics.

Did the magnets get wet? LOL

Any effective countermeasure to hypersonics?

you do know that she's a test bed ship, like the last Enterprise was for the Nimitz class.

What is the probability that the Fujian will NOT be severely handicapped by these 2 problems (electromagnetic catapult and advanced arresting cable system) that have plagued the USS Gerald Ford?

Awesome, and wonderful. Rodney Alan Godwin RAG 24

The Ford is first in class. This means it will be used to troubleshoot and fix problems before, and as, the next in class are being built and trialed. Every new weapons system needs to be used and abused in order to find out what breaks. All of this is standard and expected for the first ship in a new class.

it is a floating target

Alas So this multi billion aircraft carrier is now just a floating hotel🤔

Maybe the site name BEYOND FACTS is the most honest part of this piece.

Electric Launch and electric elevators were a big payoff scheme that will never work.The only way to fix it is to have steam catapults and elevators .

A steam cat can be fixed with a wrench and a hammer, Electronic stuff doesnt do well when exposed to a sea water environment

Just like the battle ships 100 years ago became obsolete ,these big floating target are now obsolete . Concentrating so much military asset was an issue that was debated 50 years ago , and now with the development hypersonique missile I dont think they will be build anymore .

You are using the wrong type of catapults and arresting gear on the Ford carriers.

Best comments by knowledgeable people.😯😯😯😯😯

11 Aircraft Carriers & no Health Care.. The United States of Spartan Inequity.

I'm one minute in,, and I'm going to guess the electric catapults are one of the issues...

Without resupply ??? it requires a resupply EVERY week

The battleships became obsolete when the carriers came into their own. The carriers will become obsolete as anti-ship missles become much more effective.

Marine F-35Bs can launch from US carriers without catapults. Just to be pedantic. It is possible the Navies F-35Cs could operate without catapults but with significant disadvantages. Using a larger portion of the deck, carrying less fuel and bombs. To be even more pedantic. Super Hornets may also have this capability. And would likely require full afterburners. B-25 bombers did so during WW2 with shorter decks, no catapults and far less power. Catapults remain a very important advantage. Future carriers should be built to carry either steam or electric drives until the electric drives are proven. And more or larger bomb elevators added. They could even have steam power from the reactors. Or more batteries. Which could be used as counterweights.

Short point: It's complicated.

Who woulda knew brand new tech would have some teathing problems? 🤦‍♂️

Upgrades in technology always have as many bugs as a cicada swarm. But without upgrades, the flaws and deficiencies of current tech become exposed and exploitable over time.

“Secret Weapon?” Not a secret!

The problem might be already fixed!

It’s a little scary how they named it after the clumsiest president ever you wonder why it has issues

These aren't critical design flaws; It's just predictable debugging of radically new systems. Give the Ford a year or two to get the bugs out and get the crew trained. :-)

Those little red rectangular drones (series around 6.00 / 6.40) are terribly unreliable They were flung off the catapult well enough but none of them continued into controlled flight Seems a bit shoddy if we're being honest about things

This is old news like 5 years ago

The claimed number of "traps" for the Ford over an 8 month cruise is Nowhere near a record, even though it has more planes. The Nimitz, in its 2002/3 cruise had over 11,000! And I am not sure what a record is for a carrier cruise.. For years Navy Brass hid the deep problems that the Ford had. I bet they Still are. Other classes of aircraft carriers have been started with far less problems. Carriers I have been on: Enterprise, Roosevelt, Lexington, Midway. And Yes, that Lexington Was in WW2. CV16.

You can't buy that equipment off the shelf and much of it is One Off.

A big target, in a real war it is obsolete.

In today's current wartheatre ACC's are extreme vulnerable....

And yet it can easily be attacked by missiles and drones before it makes any difference!!!

..hm ..a good target..but a great vessel

The Ford class uses an electromagnetic launch and arrestor.

how f35 can take up vertical so whats the problem

They will perfect it and get all the bugs worked out.

What are those numbers beginning to be shown at 0:15? How many tons each ship can carry? How many tons each ship weighs? How come the numbers keep changing? Makes no sense. And what are those pictographs to the left of each changing number? Can't be the number or airplanes that can be stored on each carrier? The airplanes take off and land on a carrier much like they do on a land-based runway - horizontally. They don't take off or land vertically. More senselessness.

This is "Americas Secret Weapon"??? Theres NOTHING SECRET about this giant ship!

Well. Itsnot a secret now is it?? Good In formation.

The Ford is a very expensive ship to build and operate. As such I believe that manufacturers should step up to the plate and carry through with their products to ensure utmost reliability. The United States Navy has always been a world leader. This is a great nation that will continue to be a world leader.

No new innovation comes without some bumps in the world. If they haven’t given up of remedying the issues, they’ll get it.

It's not steam launch it is electric launch

I love these people that broadcast their weapons system how the motor runs giving away weaknesses or top secret stuff that people should know but they love doing that so they are more spies to the United States people

Hardly a secret when it is seven touted on YT. And what's this 'up to snuff' bizzo??

Just like staged AC and heating, all that happens is increased cost and expensive repairs. An Aircraft carrier has one job; launch and recover aircraft. If one carrier is not fast enough, there are ten more available. All this tech is just feathers in a flags hat.

“Because it’s not what you think.” 🙄😑