[pierrem15]

There are a lot of 500k ton tankers sitting idle right now. If you bought those, refitted the interiors with lots of closed off watertight containers and refitted the center sections with missiles, lots of firewalls and multiple command centers they'd be almost unsinkable because they're so huge.

Not sexy enough I guess.

[Salgak]

Actually, that was along the lines of what I was thinking. Or one of the idling Container Ships. . .

[Rockingham]

There is a vast difference between civilian tanker hulls designed for low cost and economic efficiency and rugged navy spec hulls designed for combat, heavy loads, and sharp maneuvers. Retrofit and strengthening of such civilian hulls to make them suitable for combat would be expensive and burdened with risky compromises.

The Navy has an inadequate budget and three expensive needs: to maintain, update, and replace its current inventory of ships; to develop new ship designs and weapons and bring them into service so as to enhance its capabilities; and to expand the numbers of its current hard pressed fleet. Buying unsuitable surplus civilian tanker hulls would not offer much toward any of these goals.

[Oztrich Boy]

>There are a lot of 500k ton tankers sitting idle right now. If you bought those, refitted the interiors with lots of closed off watertight containers and refitted the center sections with missiles, lots of firewalls and multiple command centers they'd be almost unsinkable because they're so huge

And one good heavyweight torpedo under the keel and you have two 250K ton ships - or are you proposing billion dollar keel strengthening?