{"id":114824,"date":"2021-06-23T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=114824"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:29:44","slug":"us-navy-tries-to-blow-up-new-super-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=114824","title":{"rendered":"US Navy tries to blow up new super carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78) undergoing the first of three shock trials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Navy has blasted the USS Ford with 40,000 pounds of explosive to see how she holds up. This is the first of three such tests, with successive tests occurring closer to the ship.\u00a0Supposedly\u00a0<\/em>the boom seen here registered a 3.6 on the Richter Scale by the USGS, but I can’t find much to back that claim up.<\/p>\n

From Defense News<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy conducted the first of three in-water blasts near first-in-class aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, kicking off the full-ship shock trials process on a nuclear-powered flattop for the first time in 34 years.<\/p>\n

The Navy\u2019s shock trial event, the first of its kind on any class of ship since 2016, aims to prove the new carrier can withstand a hit in combat. The ship will go through two more scheduled blasts in June and July, Lt. Cmdr. Desiree Frame. a Ford spokeswoman, told Defense News.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a shock trial, a ship undergoes three 40,000-pound explosive charge detonations which occur successively closer to the ship,\u201d she said. Exact dates for each event are dependent on sea state, weather, marine mammal activity and other factors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If there wasn’t someone on that ship that said, “It must have been that bean I ate for dinner,” after the blast, that’s a missed opportunity of epic proportions.<\/p>\n