Posted on 10/31/2011 5:00:50 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I'll bet you won't hear too many complaints about Naval Vessel Rules from men who made it out of burning aircraft carriers and cruisers in 1942 and 1943.
When I was at the Orange, Texas, Naval Inactive Ship Facility toward the end of 1971, I saw a group of APD's, all in dark paint, sitting at a pier -- they were on the new "stricken" list, along with about 55 DD's and DE's, all WW II construction, some with low steaming hours, nearly-full SK cages, and one with a brand-new boat motor sitting atop a big coil of 5/8" wire rope in the after quarters, in the deckhouse. The waste that Nixon committed was immense, and I always suspected that it had to do with Litton Industries and their newbuild shipbuilding programs.
One of the stricken ships was a CLAA, reclassified AG: it was the USS Spokane, CLAA 120 iirc; the senior chiefs working in the facility told me that her 36-knot hull had been subjected to large blast waves as part of the Navy's nuclear warfighting research.
You must not have been reading your newspapers for the last 10 years.
If you don't go kick their ass in their back yard, they'll come over here and kick yours in your back yard. But then, you're still making exceptions and excuses, aren't you, for refusing to accept what's as plain as the nose on your face.
$6B is for a new aircraft carrier with all the new technology.
LCS is being defunded. A combination of Obama and the Dems’ rabid hatred of the military and of an overwhelming number of problems with the class. I don’t know what the author’s connection to the project may be. The US Navy is being quietly euthenized as was tried in 1947.
Original budgeted cost: $220M. Rebudgeted cost: $420M. Now $1B and they still don't work. In a war they will serve as targets for enemy SSKs.
Lexington Group lobbies for several major contractors including Lockheed Martin.
Lexington is nothing but a paid industry shill. If they had existed in the 50’s, they’d be doing press releases about how great the F3 Demon was (a plane that was notoriously bad because of its rotten engine).
Really, when you post this stuff, you’re literally just posting a paid-for press release.
Umm, isn’t pretty much most defense-industry related news paid-for in one way or the other?? Most of the anti and pro- JSF reports keep hashing and rehashing the same lines.
Just read back issues of Navy Times. LCS is a dud. So may problems. It’s a too big coast guard cutter with too many bells and whistles for way too much money carrying way too few sailors and mission modules that don’t work. The traditional hull one also cracks in half in rough seas.
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