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The US Navy is struggling to get the advanced weapons elevators on its new Ford-class aircraft carriers to work, so it is calling in outside experts to help amid delivery delays and rising costs, Breaking Defense reported on Monday .
The electromagnetic weapons elevators on the Ford-class carriers, which can move twice as many munitions as the elevators on the Nimitz-class carriers at a faster rate, are essential to boosting the aircraft sortie rate to increase the overall lethality of the new flattops.
The secretary of the Navy bet his job on the elevators being ready to go by the end of a maintenance period that was expected to end in July but has since been delayed to October. Even then, the Navy has doubts about its ability to get the elevators operational on time.
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The Navy is struggling to fix its new Ford-class supercarriers, so the service has called in outside experts to help find a solution amid delivery delays and rising costs.
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