Replacements?
Oh, wait......Oops, it sank. Suddenly. Oh, well, outta sight, outta mind.
One recalls the Clinton era and so-called "peace dividend" which was one of the many delicious turkeys carved up to feed the politically well connected, as the US -- recall Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound" prediction -- out sourced to "offshore" shipyard and many other manufacturing jobs. Because, savings.... And dividends.... The consequences are now very visible. More than $32 trillion dollars visible, with DC still doing the carving of the next turkeys.
Its not like this is the first nuke to be scrapped. What happened to the Long Beach?
Send them into the Taiwan strait, they get dismantled for free.
“...dismantling nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise”
Take that China!!! We’re not going to give your hypersonics any targets, we’ll just destroy them for you!!!
It’s hard for someone my age (and a veteran) to see the Enterprise (CVN-65) go away....*SIGH*
How many non-nuclear carriers has it scraped? Also a lot. Most of the 24 ship Essex class amongst others. Not to mention scrapping many other fairly large ships. Another routine process. Now we've let our shipyard capacity slip and the size factor of the BigE and her nuclear successors limits where their scrapping can occur. Possibly to different sites than had nuclear sub scrapping experience. But we don't have to invent new tech or methods. Just apply old ones to new circumstances. BigE IIRC has multiple small nuclear reactors so some steps will get multiple reps. We may need to invest in more capacity to manage future needs.
Of course they want to do a commercial dismantling. They will give the job to a Chinese. company so the Chinese can learn how we. build them.
My grandson is a supervisor in a shop in The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, another reservist grandson-in-law that is halfway through his apprenticeship there and yet another grandson who is a supervisor in periscope repair facility at Naval Sub Base Bangor, who started at the PSNS before transferring to Bangor closer to his home.
They all have worked in the nuclear deactivation portion of the shipyard. They’ve been cutting up nuclear subs for decades at PSNS. They are very, very skilled at the process. In the past 30+ years we’ve seen 4 commercial shipyards close, sell their dry docks to the highest bidders and develop the waterfront facilities.
Lockheed, gone. Lorain, gone. Foss Maritime, gone. Todd Shipyard, gone. Vigor hanging on by a thread. Just where are the commercial shipyards the Navy intends to outsource this work to? Foreign countries? What about the highly skilled American career technicians who do this kind of dangerous work?
The only option I can see is using the power of eminent domain the Navy assumes the Port of LA, perhaps the Port of Seattle, these longshoremen and their communist union, ILWU, founded by a communist named Harry Bridges, are trying to screwup Americans with their strategic labor disruptions, and sell the land to a new concern that could do the work. Otherwise, the only other option I see is offshore, that’s not going to float.
Enterprise should be a museum ship
They should give them both to me. I’ll take care of the situation.
Citing shipyard squeeze
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Fact - just one Chinese shipyard is as large as all US shipyards combined.
Refurbish them.
We’re going to need as many ships as possible to counter the ChiCom threat.
China has plenty of shipyards.
What could possibly go wrong?
Just run it ashore in Bangladesh and stand back.
Strike her from the record, tow it out to deep water and test some new ordinance on it.
Bet Biden sells it to China they are in need of steel they are digging world war II ships for steel.
What about using the scrapped Carrier As a home for homeless people? It’s not the craziest idea I’ve heard today.