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Fiberglass hulled minesweepers; that is a massively different, and far more difficult, repair job.

Guess it'll need some repair work like the Sullivan's did last year.

Man, what a find; the fact any of that has survived is amazing. Really neat to have the actual blueprints, drafts, and constructions photo's for Musashi, when so much of that stuff was lost at the end of the war.

Nautilus is making the first visit to the wreck of Akagi, it's on live-stream.

The Romeo's are just reskinned Type-XXI U-Boats, after all, so an I-400 class would be a decent contemporary comparison.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/north-koreas-diesel-electric-ballistic-missile-frankensub-emerges The Nork's have unleashed their greatest weapon yet, a diesel-electric SLBM sub. I don't think a Romeo class was design for that sort of loading on it's internal structure.

Big J is getting some drydock time in the next year or so.

I've heard that these days most painting jobs are done by contractors at the dock, not the crew itself, so that likely plays a role in this sort of stuff. When ships are dealing with nearly skeleton crews a lot of the time, 'cosmetic' issues fall way down the priority list.

It does not have certain radio-isotope contamination that exists, in some form, in most modern steel; long term after effects of all the atmospheric nuclear tests is the source of said contamination. For most uses, modern steel is fine; but for some very sensitive instruments dealing with...

Pre-nuclear steel; actually rather pricey stuff, due to limited amounts existing. A bunch of other WW2 ship wrecks in semi-shallow waters have been hit by scavangers like this, including a few IJN and ADBACOM ships which have nearly been stripped to the keel. Going after British battleship...

Fuck the CCP; scavenging steel form the Prince of Wales and Repulse is literally robbing war graves that belong to the UK.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65038617 So looks like RV Petrel had an accident while in dock, with injuries resulting as it took on a very heavy list.

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/Article/3300302/wreck-site-identified-as-world-war-two-submarine-uss-albacore-ss-218/ They found Albacore off Hokkiado.

I want to be clear, I like the idea of the replica in a park, I just do not think the municipality that is attempting this is the best location for it.

It's because this is Brighton wear this is happening. It's city gov is dysfunctional at the best of times, and is an ex-urb/suburb that is known locally for high domestic violence rates. This whole park coming off as planned would be a miracle with the way the local gov operates, which is...

Except Denver is controlled by the Remnant's/one of the Tribes of Caesar's Legion, the Hang Dogs, remember. More likely it would be a Legion fortress, possibly a Hound Master headquarters. And in other news, most of the Russian Black Sea Fleet just left port.

Heh, what Brighton plans, and what actually happens, are unlikely to be the same thing.

I find this hilarious, as Brighten is mostly know locally for being a ex-urb full of domestic violence and not really connected with any military history. Highly doubt the replica will come even close to the size of the original.