To: RightWhale
Why?..they're all modular construction....just cut off the nose section..add a new one..
39 posted on
01/27/2005 12:55:45 PM PST by
ken5050
To: ken5050
Cut off the nose all the way back to the sail. Might as well build a new sub. Just like a bent fender on a unibody van totals the vehicle.
45 posted on
01/27/2005 12:57:55 PM PST by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
To: ken5050
And re-hook and rerun every cable in the front end?
Every pipe and every controller?
No. That would be a 350 million-600 million dollar job.
180 posted on
01/27/2005 2:21:11 PM PST by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: ken5050
Why?..they're all modular construction....just cut off the nose section..add a new one..Yes that is true. I just hope the ship is indeed repaired though.
234 posted on
01/27/2005 2:59:09 PM PST by
Paul_Denton
(Shoot first and ask questions later)
To: ken5050
Why?..they're all modular construction....just cut off the nose section..add a new one. I don't know jack about submarine construction, but I seriously doubt these subs are built with a modular design concept.
The bulk head is probably modular for safety reasons, but the guts are probably integrated assembly.
Of course I could be 100% wrong.
266 posted on
01/27/2005 3:21:09 PM PST by
Popman
To: ken5050
Don't even need a new parts. Just pull em off the old boats at Puget Sound. That's my old boat USS Omaha (SSN-693) next to the hull of the Long Beach. Same class as San Francisco.
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