US Navy’s costliest-ever carrier USS Gerald Ford ‘unlikely to succeed in combat’ – leaked DoD memo

‘Some of the USS Gerald Ford’s critical combat systems are “poorly reliable,” making the Navy’s most expensive warship ever built unlikely to be ready for naval warfare, a Pentagon report reveals. Delivery of the carrier is already well behind schedule.
The reliability issues are so serious that the $13-billion USS Gerald Ford, hailed as the most technologically-advanced aircraft carrier ever built for the US Navy, would have to undergo redesign or face poor deployment capabilities, according to an internal Pentagon memo seen by Bloomberg.
“These four systems affect major areas of flight operations,” the Defense Department’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOTE), Michael Gilmore, wrote to the Pentagon and Navy weapons buyers Frank Kendall and Sean Stackley.’
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