Another.. “accident”.
Covered by GEICO?
Or possibly Allstate under a 'mayhem' clause?
USS Miami (SSN-755) was commissioned in June of 1990. The 688i class boats have a life span of 42 years, so it might be worth repairing.
Burned for over 8 hours, way more serious than at first it was cast.
Don’t you dare spend millions of dollars to repair a weapon used to defend America!!!
We need that money to pay for abortions, contraception’s and M. Obama’s required/approved food in the schools. Heck, even the new and improved ‘same sex’ sex classes in grade school is going to be expensive.
Maybe the Russians might be willing to buy a preowned nuclear-powered submarine.
USS Miami was featured prominently in Tom Clancy’s non-fiction book “Submarine”.
Fix ‘er up and let her sail again.
They can afford to fix it and should.
The gov is spending 900 dollars a month for a section eight two bedroom apartment for single mothers.
They can afford to fix the Miami.
I think it is best to defer to the engineers on this one. Submarines are very finely tuned boats, and a relatively small accident or fire might very well “total” them.
It’s not just that they need to operate, but operate silently. Anything that happens to the hull could make them stand out like a sore thumb underwater.
This being said, it might be time to rethink the submarine, not doing with less, but adding new designs with new capabilities.
One idea is to create the equivalent of a drone submarine carrier. A large, slow moving submarine that carries several shorter range drones, acting as their “motherboat”, as it were. As such, it and its drones could patrol an enormous amount of ocean or coastline.
Drones could be like long range torpedoes, carry several torpedoes, or they could be recoverable, providing long range reconnaissance, tracking other submarines, etc.
I’m assuming they were able to somewhat isolate this fire. It can’t have been an ordinary fire if it burned almost 10 hours. Where did it get the oxygen? It must have been a chemical fire where the oxidant was built in. I don’t imagine too many details will be forthcoming.