Posted on 01/19/2011 2:40:35 PM PST by george76
The San Diego-based aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan will move to Bremerton, Wash., in early 2012 for a year of scheduled maintenance...That apparently leaves San Diego with only one flattop, the Carl Vinson, stationed in the region by the end of the year.
Navy officials say they don't have any official word on plans for the Reagan.
The carrier Nimitz sailed out of San Diego Bay for the Bremerton maintenance yard in early December with its future home in doubt. Three days later, the Navy announced that it would keep the Nimitz in the Puget Sound area for the foreseeable future.
The Nimitz overhaul will take about a year. If the schedule moves as expected, a slot at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard would open up around January, 2012, for the Reagan.
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Reagan’s pretty new, isn’t she? ‘Course, I don’t know doodly about ship maintenance. I thought they were suipposed to go a few years without major surgery, is all.
The ship isn’t old, it just needs to be outfitted with new separate showers...
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“The ship isn’t old, it just needs to be outfitted with new separate showers...”
Don’t forget the private staterooms and showers for the transexual sailors.
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Translated from Macedonian Greek, RCOH = ?
That the same as the SLEP program? Or is it a successor, or a renamed, supersized, pumped-and-pimped successor program?
I know a considerable sum as I went through a year long carrier overhaul before. It really doesn't matter that it's a nuke. About every 5 years or three major deployments they have to have a major overhaul. This is for things like steam line repairs, galley equipment replacements, Generator overhaul/replacements, Chiller Plant repair/replacements, walk in cooler /refrigeration maintenance, Desal plants to make fresh water, and lots of other equipment. To replace anything second deck and below means the decks have to be cut open down to that level where the equipment is. That takes time and must be done in a shipyard enviroment as the ship's water tight integrity is compromised.
Also the catapults, arresting gears, and related flightdeck equipment get an extensive overhaul. It takes about a year. After every deployment of six months to the MED SEA or PG the ships require a three month shipyard maintenance. Again decks are cut open but these yard periods are not quite as intensive and the crew remains on board.
RCOH = Refueling & Complex Overhaul
SLEP = Service Life Extension Program.
RCOH - change the fuel in the reactor!
SLEPs are now more “incremental”, and done during PIAs etc (Planned Incremental Availabilities).
Got a young cousin E-5 riding a Perry-class tin can. Perry class are now >25 y.o. many of them, they just did hull survey on a sister ship and found only 1/8" hull metal left in spots. Just "old ship" syndrome. Everything is balky and subpar, they can't keep up. Most of them due to be retired and/or stricken from the lists in 3-5 years. Of course, that's when the Chicoms will start a big fight, and the five remaining class examples will have to carry the entire load after the Chicom sneaky missiles plug the CV's. </sardonic wit>
Actually, they're already obsolete, many have had their Standard launchers removed .... don't accompany CBG's any more, mostly pulling little-ship duty steaming independently in the Arabian Gulf, Caribbean, and so on. Anti-pirate, anti-smuggling duty.
They have the same kind of complaints we were hearing about the last of the WW II DD's, back when I was in, in 1970. Some of the Gearings were only good for 27 kt with a tailwind (so her Engineering Officer said). Power plants held together with string and baling wire. And so on.
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