{"id":133408,"date":"2022-01-01T00:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/navys-costly-carrier-finally-has-its-bomb-lifting-elevators"},"modified":"2022-01-01T00:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:22:46","slug":"navys-costly-carrier-finally-has-its-bomb-lifting-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/navys-costly-carrier-finally-has-its-bomb-lifting-elevators","title":{"rendered":"Navy\u2019s Costly Carrier Finally Has Its Bomb-Lifting Elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/navys-costly-carrier-finally-has-its-bomb-lifting-elevators2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Navy\u2019s costliest warship finally has all the elevators needed to lift bombs from below its deck so it can deploy on its first operational patrol \u2014 more than four and a half years after delivery.<\/p>\n<p>The service has announced that the 11th and final Advanced Weapons Elevator is in place on the $13.3 billion USS Gerald R. Ford and the aircraft carrier is ready for training and operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a significant milestone for the Navy, ship and her crew,\u201d Rear Admiral James Downey, the Navy\u2019s program executive officer for aircraft carriers, said in a statement. \u201cWe now have the entire system to operate and train with.\u201d He said the service and the prime contractor, Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., used \u201chundreds of craftsmen, technicians and engineers, working around the clock \u2014through multiple underway and holiday periods \u2014 to get these advanced systems on line and operational.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy\u2019s costliest warship finally has all the elevators needed to lift bombs from below its deck so it can deploy on its first operational patrol \u2014 more than four and a half years after delivery. The service has announced that the 11th and final Advanced Weapons Elevator is in place on the $13.3 billion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}