{"id":194570,"date":"2008-09-13T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/13\/contract-awarded-for-nimitz-sucessor\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-13T12:10:00","slug":"contract-awarded-for-nimitz-sucessor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/13\/contract-awarded-for-nimitz-sucessor\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract Awarded For Nimitz Sucessor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3719155&amp;c=AME&amp;s=SEA\">Gerald R. Ford<\/a>, which will succeed the Nimitz Class, and contain such bits of tech as (quoting from article):<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>a new flight deck with an improved weapon handling system, advanced arresting gear, a newly developed electromagnetic aircraft launch system, new and simplified nuclear propulsion plants and a new electrical power generation system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One hopes that its progress will be smoother than the Littoral Combat Ship or the DDG-1000 Zumwalt&#8217;s, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gerald R. Ford, which will succeed the Nimitz Class, and contain such bits of tech as (quoting from article): a new flight deck with an improved weapon handling system, advanced arresting gear, a newly developed electromagnetic aircraft launch system, new and simplified nuclear propulsion plants and a new electrical power generation system. One hopes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}