Selling the USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy like that for scrap is disgusting.
The US just practiced launching F-35s from the deck of a new Japanese aircraft carrier.... created by converting one of their helicopter carriers. Likewise, Japan has converted destroyers recently into aircraft carriers as well, retrofitting the destroyers with flattops.
The sale should be cancelled and re-direct those carriers to Japan or another friendly country for the upcoming fight with China. Those aircraft carriers are still perfectly capable of navigating waters in the South and East China Seas... stacked with F-35s or other planes/helicopters of their choosing.
The Kitty Hawk was pretty famous in its time.
Our tax dollars at work!
Don’t worry, they’ll again see the ocean as carriers...except they will be under the Chinese flag as we’re more of a ‘service industry’ country now.
It is going to be expensive to scrap those ships. There are so many hazardous materials (oil, asbestos etc.) and the environmental laws in the US are strict. Most commercial ships are scrapped in places like Indonesia with lax environmental laws.
They should have at least sold them a say 25%-50% under scrap price to recover some tax dollars. Scrappers still make money, Fed’s get at least some money back. Ridiculous.
What an odd sentence.
Does Apple new their newest iPhone at cut-price cost? According to the sentence above, one would expect a cut-price cost -- if the company will profit. Which is to say: Huh????
One wonders about any connections between International Shipbreaking Limited (ISL) and Texas politicians and/or various former admirals and soon-to-be-retired admirals.
Earlier this year International Shipbreaking Limited (ISL) received its European Union Ship Recycling Regulation (EU SRR) accreditation for its site in Brownsville, Texas.
Scrapping a naval ship is undignified. They should be consigned to the deep to be presided over by Neptune…
I want an aircraft carrier!!!
I expect you’ll get the negative knee-jerk reaction from FReepers don’t understand the situation.
Scrapping of large ship in the United States is very costly and full of potholes around environmental issues. There is probably tons of asbestos on each of the ships. The boilers are likely to be radioactive(no not from nuclear but from fossil fuel). The paint alone is a nightmare - one will have to dispose of it by approved methods. And lastly the price of scrap steel is down, practically not worth hauling to the scrapper. I suspect the steel used in aircraft carriers will bring more than your scrapped car would, but not enough to make up the deficit of the labor and materials to render to scrap. The real money is probably in the bronze, copper and electronics(gold).
Hey, it’s great to be careless with money when it isn’t yours.
Ahhhh...the U.S. surrenders again.
The US Navy betraying the taxpayer
I knew it. The Marines paid $1 for the USS Princeton to use as an LPH in 1959. I have always maintained that the Marines were overcharged.
Oh man, I had dibs on the Kitty Hawk!
I would have bought the Kitty Hawk.
Anchor it just over 12 Nautical miles off the Southeastern Coast, declare it my own Country, make it into a Casino, Entertainment venue.
Cha-Ching!!
CVA-63 Tonkin bump
I imagine mooring fees on a 1000-foot long (derelict) boat are pretty substantial. At least they didn’t pay someone to scrap them.
On the other hand, they would have made very nice artificial reefs. And ships sunk properly (Lulu, Benwood, Hilma Hooker, et al) make for very popular scuba diving sites.