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To: Retain Mike

The requirement is for a 10,000 ton LPD.

We used to have dozens of them.

But USN inflated the platform to the 25,000 ton San Antonio class and we’ll probably build only 4-5 of those.


6 posted on 07/22/2021 8:31:00 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

By the time government contracting is done, it will be ten times the original size, with experimental turbines burning cooking grease or some such that will never work.


7 posted on 07/22/2021 8:40:56 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: Mariner

From the pictures it looks a lot smaller. More like the LST’s I served on.


12 posted on 07/22/2021 10:07:21 AM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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