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To: FarCenter

Some rich cats are going to picking these ships up for song and make them into Yachts.


10 posted on 09/13/2023 10:36:20 AM PDT by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: Rappini
I surprised they didn't gift them to Ukraine, so they can charge the money to a foreign aid account and recoup the money for the next doomed project.
Zhou Bhi Deng would love his 10%.
12 posted on 09/13/2023 10:41:21 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Rappini

“Some rich cats are going to picking these ships up for song and make them into Yachts.”

they don’t work, are hideously complex, and parts for engines and transmissions that continuously fail will be impossible to find ... navy is getting rid of these pink elephants for a reason ...


30 posted on 09/13/2023 11:21:04 AM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: Rappini

“Some rich cats are going to picking these ships up for song and make them into Yachts.”

Probably some of the same guys that got their hooks into the billions spent by the Navy. “Make it out of thin aluminum so I don’t have to spend so much on fuel after the conversion.”


37 posted on 09/13/2023 11:33:53 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Rappini

Only if we are lucky.

When foreign governments confiscate it then it can drain their budget dry.


44 posted on 09/13/2023 12:00:31 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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