Posted on 07/09/2024 3:05:27 PM PDT by DFG
Extensive delays to the mid-life refueling and complex overhauls of two nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were due to damage to the steam turbines that power the ship, USNI News has learned. According to Naval Sea Systems Command, “significant damage” to the generators aboard both USS George Washington (CVN-73) and USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) added unplanned work that was discovered after both carriers arrived at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding for maintenance.
Every mid-life refueling and overhaul, “work package has planned inspections and routine refurbishment of the eight [turbine generators]; however, inspections for both George Washington and John C. Stennis revealed one generator on each ship with significant damage that resulted in unplanned growth work, which contributed to schedule extensions on both ships,” reads the statement from NAVSEA.
The Nimitz-class carriers mid-life overhauls are scheduled for four years, but Washington took almost six years while Stennis is set to take five and a half, USNI News reported last month.
Based on Fiscal Year 2025 budget documents, the Navy estimated the work would take an extra 14 months to complete the mid-life overhaul on Stennis due to the additional work.
In a statement to USNI News, HII said “the change in redelivery schedule for [Stennis] is primarily a reflection of growth work discovered after the ship arrived to NNS and subsequent challenges within the supply base … We are applying lessons learned from both George Washington and John C. Stennis to what we are doing to prepare USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) for RCOH.”
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I’m old school and think carriers should be given names like Saratoga or Bunker Hill. They can name garbage haulers after politicians. Or maybe they could name an LSD the Bill CLinton.
I’m old school and think carriers should be given names like Saratoga or Bunker Hill. They can name garbage haulers after politicians. Or maybe they could name an LSD the Bill CLinton.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-us-navy-named-a-ship-after-harvey-milk-to-show-its-lgbt-pride
the first openly gay person elected to political office in California,
Well done.
Slave owner one
Dixiecrat second
Change the names dammit
What’s wrong with you people
He makes it easy.
L
As do others ;-)
Ah yes, the globohomo warmongering stooge has spoken. Let me guess, you were in the army and are proud of being a tool of neocon civilian killers. You’ve got to be beside your warmongering ass about the million, mostly innocent Arab civilians you enjoyed having a hand in killing.
The amazing thing is MIC goons like you don’t get a cent while your DC masters make billions. But ghouls such as you don’t need money for satisfaction. Just think 500,000 unnecessary dead Ukes because you and your woke, globohomo leaders torpedoed the peace. And 15,000 dead Palestinian children? I see you really get off on slaughtered children. Is that a wrench in your pocket or are you fantasizing about those butchered children?
If you’re some big time warrior for the Uniparty why don’t you go to Ukraine? Absolutely, your hero, Z, will take you. Oh, too dangerous, huh? You wouldn’t be slaughtering untrained, unarmed irregulars. You’d be fighting an army in better shape than ours. Too dangerous? Not only are you woke, pervo stooge of the globohomos you are also a coward with a stupid big mouth.
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