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speaking of LHD-6 she did her nation one final service on the way to the breakers as a super realistic tool for practicing repairing battle damage. And the USN plans to do it on most of its non nuclear ships being sent to the breakers or to be used as target practice in the future...

Although that sub was at least fixable via application of parts and material from retired sister ships if Congress had forked over the dough.

I will note that 350 is what the USN says is the minimum to do what policy makers ask of it in the long term. Ideally the USN wants another hundred hulls on top of that figure

It's been having issues since the fruits of the post cold war peace dividends have turned sour in the early 2000s

Yeah cutting taxes and getting then involved in a expensive war(and really two wars) wasn't the Republicans finest hour by any definition. And yes the IRS really needs a bigger budget and basically always has since its creation. I mean for heavens sake if the IRS had collected all the taxes it...

And the long deployment cycles caused by not having enough ships or personnel And deferring the of a fair bit of maintenance on both ships and bases during the Obama years. And the whole War on Terror sucking away funding during a critical time period for both new ships and base upgrades...

Well that and to avoid the cost of upgrading the things.

Mind you if we can reach such force levels it will massively reduce the pressure on the deployment schedule for ships

The target strength for the USN if Congress allots the needed funding is that by the end of the 2030s the fleet will consist of around 350 to 380 manned ships including sixty or so SSNs and a dozen or so SSBNs and around 150 to 200 unmanned ones including a fair few unmanned subs plus the ships...

And Congress isn't allotting enough money for the upgrade and maintenance of the various naval yards. Its estimated that if the USN grows to the 350+ ships it wants to be at by the end of the 2030s an investment of 50+ billion dollars in our naval yards (ideally including reopening/ opening a...

To be fair fires on ships isn't a uncommon problem what with how they're loaded with flammable materials and way too ways to ignite them but most remain minor at best and it's just that in the case of Bonhomme Richard most of her DC gear was offline due to being in a refit and the fire quickly...

Let us hope that she won't be the last ship to bear the name.

You know I was hoping it was the yard screwing up since they could actually pay for the damage. A idiotic sailor doesn't have anywhere remotely enough assets to pay for the amount of damage that has occurred.

Great.... you just gave the RN bad luck

Thank god we didn't just lose a super carrier while she was being built. I'm pretty sure Newport News would have been nationalized if we had. And yes I'm pretty sure the USN is going to do a lot of very in depth investigations of all sorts and add tons of new regulations for the yards and...

Man I'd hate to be the CEO and CFO of General Dynamics if the yard is found at fault for the fire. Seriously if they are they're probably building their next DD, or submarine, or couple Oilers for free or its equivalent in penalties

Well she's got at least 9 years of active life left in her. Man replacing the early Wasps will be a right pain considering how close(for major Warships at least) they were completed together and that was before this whole incident occurred on the third youngest member of the class

In all likelihood if it was up to the USN they would probably speed up Bougainville's construction and get the next couple Americas procured and built earlier than planned and extend the service lives of the remaining Wasps to make up for 18 to 23(the Wasp class was designed with a service life...

Assuming of course Congress will give the Navy a one time subpliment to the budget to repair her and won't order another America earlier than planned.

Still I have my doubts as to whether or not the Navy deems it worth it to repair the ship especially if she has suffered severe enough structural damage. Honestly it might be way more cost effective to accelerate Bougainville's construction and speed up the procurement and construction of the...