New aircraft carrier comes with obsolete parts.

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The Navy is almost three years away from introducing the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier to the fleet, but many of the parts and subsystems used aboard the ship already are out of production, said Rear Adm. Dennis Dwyer, program executive officer for aircraft carriers. The ship, known as the CVN-77, is the last of the Nimitz-class.

"I can't make a Nimitz any more ... Most of the equipment on a Nimitz is obsolete," Dwyer told reporters. "That's one of the tyrannies of building combat ships. They don't have a large market for some of the things we use. A lot of the...