(Tribune News Service) From the fantail of USS Gerald R.
Ford, as F/A-18s roar past a few yards overhead, Chief Warrant Officer
Todd Williamson was testing the carrier’s last line of defense. Making sure the Close-in Weapons System Mount 23 a combination multiple-barrel cannon, capable of firing 4,500 rounds a minute, tied to radar and computers can do its job of knocking down missiles or aircraft is just one part of one of the last big tasks in the carrier’s year-and-half long post-delivery test and trial period. Williamson and his team are in the midst of combat systems qualifications making sure Ford’s guns, radar, communications and command and control systems can do what the
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