>UPDATED with additional comment WASHINGTON: Amidst rising anxiety over whether the US Navy’s thousand-foot-long flagships could evade Chinese missiles in a future war, the Pentagon has decided to cut the aircraft carrier fleet from 11 today to 10.
The """mighty""" USN is scared shitless of chinks.
Not a bad move really, the LHD's will be able to do most of the patrol work with F-35's and leave the CVNs for more important duties.
Joseph Ramirez
Unlikely they will retire a 20 year old carrier
Dylan Lee
>completely false item of propaganda meant to prime the reader to disagree with what the journalist disagrees with and accept their lies >legitimate but out of context piece of news GAS GAS GAS I'M GONNA STEP ON THE GAS
Oliver Thompson
They just did, retard.
>Ignatius mentioned an estimated $4 billion in savings, but the real figure over time is likely to be much higher. The overhaul itself costs $6.5 billion and operating the carrier thereafter costs about $1 billion a year. So total savings could exceed $30 billion, albeit spread out over decades.
Logan King
heh
>Truman entered service in 1998 and was built to serve for 50 years, but like all nuclear carriers, it requires regular maintenance, periodic upgrades, and a major overhaul at mid-life when its reactor core runs out of uranium. The ship was scheduled to go into the Newport News shipyard in 2024 for a mid-life Refueling & Complex Overhaul (RCOH) ending in 2028. That’s beyond the five-year budget plan about to be released, which therefore won’t include the vast majority of the savings from the cancellation. (That probably accounts for Ignatius’s estimate being too low).
>Cancelling the overhaul would let the reactor run down: Exactly how fast depends on exactly how hard the Truman has used it over the years, Hendrix told us, and on how hard it’s run in the future. It would force the ship’s retirement at some point in the mid to late 2020s, two decades ahead of the expected date of 2048.
so, they will build two new carriers in the future... for what purpose I have no clue. Carriers are fucking useless.
Elijah Bell
My thoughts exactly. I know the Truman was up for her mid life retrofit/refuel, but its also one of the younger Nimitz ships. I remember when she was launched when I was in elementary school.
Ayden Morgan
>Carriers are fucking useless. Battleship fags will never change.
Jace Wright
US got conquered despite these fucking carriers. That money would have been better spent on small arms.