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Ford’s lethality is also enhanced by the RIM 116
short-range defensive surface to air missile...
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...... and the radar-guided, rotating 20mm Gatling Gun
called the Phalanx CIWS (Sea-Wiz).
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That lethality aims to help keep sailors safe and the
enemy less so.
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Criticism of the new carrier, which may be the last of
the “Big” carriers now that drones are replacing manned aircraft, has
been swift and harsh.
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Facing a longer timeline for completion and burgeoning costs, Newport
News Shipbuilding construction director Geoff Hummel says, “Problems are
something we think about every day.”
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“There are going to be issues in a new class of ship,”
Hummel says. “The question is how big are they and how serious?”
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Minimizing those problems are the Newport News
Shipbuilding employees, out here every day of the year.
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Newport News wants the Ford’s eventual new sailors to
know that “this is an awesome ship that they’ll bring to life.”
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Those sailors shouldn’t doubt it, with the decades of
experience Newport News employees bring.
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