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.

[swanny71]

Blocked stters, extended deployments and unhappy crew - life on a warship, nothing new.

[cliffords]

BrettMRC said:

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

I read they have rationed the amount off poos you can have to one every other day .

[hidetheelephants]

Mabbs9 said:

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

That's pretty good given it's a floating airfield with enough thrones to cater for ~4500 aholes. On a ship with 15 crew it's rare for a month to pass without a few failures due to components wearing out or operator error and maybe 6-8 hours of routine maintenance would be done anyway. Given vacuum stters are pretty simple it's a big claim that there are serious problems, it's ordinarily either a vacuum pump failure(there are always more than one pump so you just change over, then get on and fix it) or the stter itself going haywire(the pneumatic controllers can go doolally, usually just a diaphragm/valve defect).

What can cause problems is sabotage by pricks putting stuff down the toilet that hasn't been eaten, clothing is commonly found on cruise liners because the general public are entitled fkwits and don't read or heed instructions. While vacuum stters make packaging a lot easier there's a lot to be said for old-fashioned sea-water flushing sewage systems as 4" pipes are a lot harder to block than 2".

[aeropilot]

hidetheelephants said:

What can cause problems is sabotage by pricks putting stuff down the toilet that hasn't been eaten, clothing is commonly found on cruise liners because the general public are entitled fkwits and don't read or heed instructions.

There were reports that T-Shirts have been found in USS Gerry Ford's heads system, so plenty of military fkwits on board ship as well.