Posted on 06/09/2024 8:20:05 PM PDT by hardspunned
Why am I not surprised about this?
“Although Congress had directed otherwise, the U.S. Navy in early 2024 ordered all further work on the ships to stop and they were placed on the decommissioning list.”
Congress, like the President, has no power when it comes to MIC profits.
“They are being replaced in the air warfare commander role by new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, only one of which currently is in service.“
I hope each is replaced by the Flight III Arleigh Burkes as they go out of service.
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Can anyone, anywhere, do anything, on time, on budget and right? Anymore?
The Cruisers are on the same hull as the Destroyers I think. Same basic ship just configured differently
Take that She (and Putin)!!!!
We don’t need no Navy ships because WE ARE AMERICA and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!
As it is, China’s hypersonics will likely ‘retire’ our navy vessels ever faster than the brass intends, given the boneheads in the White House.
Thanks.
But are they being replaced at the same rate they leave service?
Reality intrudes. In this modern technological era, naval surface combatants, land armored vehicles and helicopters over the battlefield are obsolete coffins. If there is to be war, it will have to be rethought. Ground shoulders will have to be shielded by anti detection devices or put another way high tech gilley suits.
They will be. We have commissioned the first and 7 more are under construction. And the Flight III Burkes are significantly more capable than Ticos.
Ah
The Tico Cruisers were built on the 1970's Spruance Class Destroyer hull design. The Arleigh Burke is a completely different hull. The Ticonderoga were always a Destroyer, at 9600 tons displacement. The FLT III Burkes are 9700 tons displacement. The sensor suite on the FLT III is far superior to the cruisers they are replacing.
At this point North Korea has hypersonic technology that the US does not.
Meanwhile, the USA has been working on hypersonic since the late 1990s, but 25 years later there is still no in-service weapons and nothig coming in the immediate future.
Crap, even worse than I though. As they DO NOT say in the US Brass (because it’s true): “Quantity has a quality of its own.”. Sure would be nice if our military was capable of KEEPING SHIPS OPERATING (along with other systems), even while commissioning new ones.
Thank you for that info.
Your use of “Tico” indicates that you were stationed on one of them but I might be wrong.
I’ve been listening to these guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F1IE5_2Y0w
This Malcolm Kyeyune does a lot of original reporting on the actual state of the US military, readiness and the capabilities of the industrial base.
The basic summary is: the more details you know about it, the worse it gets.
If construction is delayed, do they still go ahead with scrapping the existing ships?
“The Cruisers are on the same hull as the Destroyers I think. Same basic ship just configured differently”
That sounds about what I gathered.
A lot of life out of that hull.
Hope the Burkes are not as top heavy as the Tico class. Still remember going out overnight on one for some testing and the insane rolling once they slowed down after dark.
That and the 5mB hard drive as big as a small filing cabinet.
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