Why America’s most advanced warships are struggling with fires and electrical faults

A Chinese military magazine has highlighted a spate of non-combat losses across the US Navy, claiming they have eroded the fleet’s capabilities and exposed “systemic pressure and shortcomings”. The report in Naval & Merchant Ships pointed to fires, electrical failures and propulsion issues on America’s most advanced warships in recent months. They include the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, the USS Zumwalt destroyer, Nimitz-class carrier the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and Arleigh Burke-class...


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