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To: Onthebrink

She will never be reactivated.

The cost to bring up to standard is prohibitive.

All new power plant.
All new electrical and plumbing.
All new electronics and radars.
VLS
All new crew accommodations.

Essentially they would have to take it apart and put it back together...just to have a 75yr old ship.

Better to build new.


26 posted on 04/14/2021 11:16:51 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I agree better to build new but from the crap the navy has trotted out the last ten years the question is could they even do it and make it work? Aside from the long in the tooth Arleigh Burke class of DD’s and the cold war era Ticonderoga class cruisers, the last Nimitz carriers Reagan and Bush, the America class helicopter/amphib carriers and some subs everything else has been a waste of money and doesn’t work.

The LCS ships have been a complete disaster, the Ford class carriers where the weapons elevators don’t work most of the time and we can’t even design our new class of frigates they appear to be an Italian design. We wore out the F-14 and A-6’s without real replacements and now have F-18’s doing jobs they were not designed to do and in all cases they have very short legs with roughly a 650 mile combat radius which puts the carriers well within land based anti-ship missile range for them to even launch a strike on a land based position. If we are hitting Iran or some 3rd world country this would not be a huge concern, but going up against the Dragon in the South China Sea it would most certainly be a huge risk. Is there no strategic thought afoot anywhere in the USN?


28 posted on 04/14/2021 11:42:35 AM PDT by sarge83
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