The future aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-80) will deliver a year and a half later than prior projections, according to the Navy. The Ford-class carrier, which is currently under construction at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, will deliver in September of 2029, 18 months later than its previous scheduled delivery date in March of 2028, according to the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget documents. The documents cite “delays in material availability and industry/supply chain performance” as the reason for the schedule change. In addition to delays to the CVN-80 delivery, Monday’s budget submission also disclosed the Navy’s decision to
In 2005, Gerald R. Ford was estimated to cost at least $13 billion: $5 billion for research and development plus $8 billion to build. A 2009 report raised the estimate to $14 billion, including $9 billion for construction. In 2013, the life-cycle cost per operating day of a carrier strike group (including aircraft) was estimated at $6.5 million by the Center for New American Security.
That $14 billion 2009 dollars is $20.45 billion 2024 dollars, and that’s not even counting any overruns. $6.5 million 2009 dollars/day to operate = $9.5 million 2024 dollars per day to operate. And that’s just one ship.
Thanks to the MIC and its profiteers we can always afford any sum to “project power” (meaning: threaten other nations we don’t like or want to manipulate) but can never, somehow, afford the costs of a basic civilized society here at home - things like Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security - nope too expensive, all must be cut, “unsustainable!”
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That $14 billion 2009 dollars is $20.45 billion 2024 dollars, and that’s not even counting any overruns. $6.5 million 2009 dollars/day to operate = $9.5 million 2024 dollars per day to operate. And that’s just one ship.
Thanks to the MIC and its profiteers we can always afford any sum to “project power” (meaning: threaten other nations we don’t like or want to manipulate) but can never, somehow, afford the costs of a basic civilized society here at home - things like Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security - nope too expensive, all must be cut, “unsustainable!”