USS Gerald R Ford

[BrettMRC]

An interesting bit of kit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford

However, plenty of stories surfacing now about issues with the toilets/waste vacuum systems:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internat...

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202602/1355709.sht...

https://x.com/NavyLookout/status/20263567780200980...

Given how noisom this could be combined with maintaining combat operations, it made me wonder what kind of redundancy these systems have in a modern warship? Or are they literally reduced to bucket & chuck it?

[WH16]

To quote Kenny the plumber. 1" pipe, 2" ahole.

https://youtu.be/p8MnU6Sg0d4?t=140

Yes there is plenty of redundancy on ships, but not of pipework unless critical systems.

[HarryW]

I think it’ll need to be extra robust for its expected use this weekend.

[Mabbs9]

"Averaging one maintenance call a day". Doesn't sound great but hardly ready for scrap?

[Collectingbrass]

Mabbs9 said:

"Averaging one maintenance call a day". Doesn't sound great but hardly ready for scrap?

Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer made Top Gun, not Red Dwarf. Blocked sh!thouses mission critical systems because they don't work properly from the get go aren't good for anyone's morale, never mind when your chain of command are grifting devoted MAGA nut jobs disciples at the top and lecturing you daily on what a legal command is and is not in the middle, and you're probably off to another forever war because the CinC wants a distraction from the Epstein files the oil to rescue a downtrodden people from their tyrannical overlords who are shooting them daily in the street...

[46and2]

I saw earlier today on Ryan McBeth's Instagram that there is potentially another Carrier on its way.

Pinch of salt needed with all youtubers obviously.

[BrettMRC]

It's departed Greece now, so presumably they have mitigated the issue one way or another.