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Army Putting New Infantry Squad Vehicle Through Paces TACTICAL WHEELED VEHICLES 2/19/2021 GM Defense photo The Army is testing its new transport vehicle less than a year after it awarded a contract to GM Defense for the program. Developmental testing of the Infantry Squad Vehicle, or ISV, began in November and will culminate in an initial operational test in August, said Steve Herrick, product lead for ground mobility vehicles at the program executive office for combat support and combat service support. The Army received the first batch of its new ISVs in ...

(Photo : Screenshot from Twitter post of @Simon_JonesCTV) US Navy's USS Ford is World's Most Expensive Carrier! Pentagon Tests the New Ship and Finds Faulty Tech These are shots of the US Navy’s newest #supercarrier undergoing sea trials. The USS Ford is over 1,100 feet long, and cost $13 billion (!) to build: the most expensive #ship, and weapon, in history. So behold $13 billion making high speed turns at over 30 knots. #warshippic.twitter.com/5DyTaL0FZ6— Simon Jones (@Simon_JonesCTV) November 2, 2019 This is currently a serious matter since aircraft carriers are specifically develop...

The USS Gerald R. Ford’s new systems are crucial to justifying the expense of what’s now a four-vessel program intended to replace the current Nimitz class of aircraft carriers.

A new assessment of the USS Gerald R. Ford was carried out by Pentagon testers The testers said the trouble was with the USS Ford's new, high-tech aircraft takeoff and landing systems The systems were said to have experienced failures more often than expected The unreliability of the systems could 'adversely affect' the USS Ford's ability to carry out military sorties according to testers

Navy’s Priciest Carrier Ever Struggles to Get Jets On, Off Deck Bloomberg 1/9/2021 Tony Capaccio (Bloomberg) -- Aircraft takeoff and landing systems on the USS Gerald R. Ford remain unreliable and break down too often more than three years after the $13.2 billion carrier was delivered, according to the Pentagon’s top tester. The latest assessment of the costliest warship ever built “remains consistent” with previous years, director of testing Robert Behler said in his new summary of the program obtained by Bloomberg News before its release in an annual report. “Poo...