![]() ![]() Ford CVNs cost over $13 billion each, and that doesn’t include working out the “teething problems”). Navy afford not to, considering how expensive it is to build, operate, maintain, refuel, and service a CVN nuclear powered aircraft carrier? (The USS Gerald R. Navy and Congress be audacious enough to build the Drone Carrier Warship, considering how the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) and the three expensive DDG 1000s were semi-successful or semi-failures depending on viewer perspectives? Can the U.S. And be small and cheap enough to be built in large quantities.Act as a Mothership vessel for future drones such as the MARTAC MANTAS T38 unmanned surface vessel (USV).Provide crisis response in-theater closer to hot-spots around the globe.Provide expanded space for command, medical, dental, gym, facilities, food, Administration, maintenance, services, and logistics for the LAWs and small boats.Provide consistently available and present runways and landing pad for unmanned aircraft, rotorcraft, drones, and a floodable well deck for sea and subsurface vessels independent of carriers, warships, Sea bases, and amphibious ships. ![]()
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