The F-35 is a disaster and now we have Navy ships that fall in behind that failure. If the USA wants to have Iran pulling our personnel out of the water on a regular basis, keep throwing good money after bad. Go ahead, Wall Street and not far into the future a military that has lost it's readiness.
There is a reason why the B52 is still in service. It works and it was built when such jets were affordable to the country. New B52s can be built, but, costs are ridiculous.
January 14, 2016
By Anthony Capaccio
The U.S. Navy (click here) is spending millions of dollars to repair new high-speed transport ships built by Austal Ltd. because their weak bows can’t stand buffeting from high seas, according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester.
There is a reason why the B52 is still in service. It works and it was built when such jets were affordable to the country. New B52s can be built, but, costs are ridiculous.
January 14, 2016
By Anthony Capaccio
The U.S. Navy (click here) is spending millions of dollars to repair new high-speed transport ships built by Austal Ltd. because their weak bows can’t stand buffeting from high seas, according to the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester.
“The entire ship class requires reinforcing structure” to bridge the twin hulls of the all-aluminum catamarans because of a design change that the Navy adopted at Austal’s recommendation for the $2.1 billion fleet of Expeditionary Fast Transports, Michael Gilmore, the Defense Department’s director of operational test and evaluation, said in a report to Congress....
December 14, 2015
The Navy's newest ship, (click here) the littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee, broke down on Friday and had to be towed to a base in Virginia, the Navy Times reports.
The $360-million ship was commissioned last month in Milwaukee and was on its way to its home port of San Diego. The long journey took it through the Great Lakes and to Halifax, Canada.
The ship was on its next leg, from Halifax to Florida, when it "suffered an engineering casualty," the Navy Times reports.
The ship had to be towed more than 40 nautical miles to the naval base in Little Creek, Virginia.
The Navy Times reported that the initial indication is that metal debris collected in an oil filter, causing the system to shut down, though the source of the fine metal debris was not known....
There was a reason the bottle didn't break. The ship is a disaster,
December 14, 2015
The Navy's newest ship, (click here) the littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee, broke down on Friday and had to be towed to a base in Virginia, the Navy Times reports.
The $360-million ship was commissioned last month in Milwaukee and was on its way to its home port of San Diego. The long journey took it through the Great Lakes and to Halifax, Canada.
The ship was on its next leg, from Halifax to Florida, when it "suffered an engineering casualty," the Navy Times reports.
The ship had to be towed more than 40 nautical miles to the naval base in Little Creek, Virginia.
The Navy Times reported that the initial indication is that metal debris collected in an oil filter, causing the system to shut down, though the source of the fine metal debris was not known....
There was a reason the bottle didn't break. The ship is a disaster,
