It's not just the F-35: US Navy new Ford Carrier is already 2 years late and is delayed again

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The new Ford Aircraft Carrier: Making a Ship float is the easy part.
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America continues to be the world's leader in destabilizing regimes and military poking at the world's other rapidly developing military powers. It may not be a credible threat with the boondoggle of the F-35 and now, its sea-based cost-overrun, technology-failing equivalent, the Ford Aircraft Carrier. Claimed to be 98% complete, the Navy nevertheless is considering pulling the plug on the next 2 carriers in its class. Over-design, hardware/software failures are par for the course for today's bloated military, which also can't account for $7t over the last 20 years. It might be cheaper to just try getting along with the rest of the world.

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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.

His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)