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USS Miami (SSN-755) Will Cost $400 Million To Repair
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| June 5 2012
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Posted on 06/05/2012 5:16:24 PM PDT by moonshot925
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To: moonshot925
Have they determined the cause of the fire yet?
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:21:47 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
The investigation is ongoing.
To: moonshot925
This thing is at the end of its 30 year life cycle.
Its 24 years old.
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:26:07 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: moonshot925
$400MM is about 0.5 milliTARP.
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:27:25 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
To: moonshot925
It's good to see a PO there with a slung arm and sidearm, and a Chief supervising.
I expect things are in good hands.
/johnny
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To: moonshot925
In the mid-80’s I was aboard a Spruance DD in a shipyard for an overhaul. One day, a shipyard worker was welding in an overhead when a fire broke out on some paper covering the deck. I and another sailor hastily put the fire out while a second shipyard worker, assigned as a firewatch laughed at us. He never got up off his ass. Fires in the shipyard were much more common than at sea.
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:29:01 PM PDT
by
ryan71
To: moonshot925
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:30:27 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: ryan71
LOL I have been through lots of fires at sea.
It’s pretty scary on a boat.
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:33:34 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
This thing is at the end of its 30 year life cycle. Its 24 years old. It should be renamed the Bill Clinton for so many reasons...
To: the invisib1e hand
Its still full of seamen!
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:34:52 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
USS Miami is a 688i class boat, service life of 42 years with an extra refueling.
“The 18 SSN-688 class submarines that will be refueled at their mid-life could make good candidates for a service life extension because they could operate for nearly 30 years after the refueling. After these submarines serve for 30 years, they could undergo a 2-year overhaul and serve for one more 10-year operating cycle, for a total service life of 42 years. The cost for the additional overhaul of SSN-688 class submarines would be about $406 million per boat.”
http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/man/uswpns/navy/submarines/ssn688_la.html
To: mylife
To: the invisib1e hand
USS Bill Clinton: "The bent one"
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:36:46 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: moonshot925
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:38:15 PM PDT
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mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
To: Steely Tom
$400 Million? Isn’t that about what Congress had earmarked for The Bridge To Nowhere back in 2005?
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:42:24 PM PDT
by
Josh Painter
("The lesser of two evils is, by definition, evil." - Josh Painter)
To: mylife
This thing is at the end of its 30 year life cycle. Its 24 years old. What's the life span estimate based on, the number of dive pressure cycles on the hull?
These days, I'd be very hesitant to scrap a salvageable boat - even one that is only marginally so. Promised replacements are "iffy" at best.
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posted on
06/05/2012 5:42:34 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: mylife
The Ohio class boats alos have a 42 year life thanks to a life extension program launched in 1995.
Life cycle of boats is as follows:
14 year service life
4 month Extended Refit Period(ERP)
6 year service life
2 year Engineered Refueling Overhaul(ERO)
20 year service life
4 month Extended Refit Period(ERP) at some point in the seond 20 years of life
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