For your interest.
I suspected as much.
Did they ever discover the cause?
They’ll probably build a new one instead. And salvage parts from the old ship as much as possible.
Use it as a training ship, for fire fighting - as one example.
Awww! That was a purdy ship.
Reminded me of mine, the Peleliu.
The way things are going, I thought that would be the ship
the Biden administration would keep, and get rid of all the
others.
The replacement ship will probably have a new name.
The same name might be bad luck.
Did they ever release the name of the arsonist who was targeted in the investigation?
Over a decade ago, I boarded one of its Wasp class sister ships during Fleet Week. It was an impressive hunk of metal, to say the least. Best of all, the Osprey was embarked at the time. I am annoyed that the people responsible haven’t been brought to book or at least charged with criminal negligence.
How many ships did we produce during WWII, and at what price tag for each class?
Ouch, that is a $4.4 billion hit!
These ships are not going to be very useful in a real war. One hit and they burn up.
China gets stronger, the U.S. gets weaker.
Honestly, I think it would be hard to justify spending that time and money to refurbish a 30 year old ship. Ships aren’t designed for an infinite lifespan, ocean water is hard on steel and those hulls get thin over decades of use. I am not an expert in LHDs but I’d have to guess this was approaching the end of it’s originally projected lifespan. Of course in the modern era the USN is forced to squeeze every drop of life out of vessels but if it becomes a burnt out husk it’s time to move on.
“To decommission and scrap the ship will cost the Navy about $30 million and take between nine months and one year, Ver Hage noted”
Call the waste, fraud, and abuse hotline.
I’d do it in a month for $5 million. And I’d only charge that much because I could.
One has to ask....would the ship have survived at all if it was deployed and took a hit from a war shot?
What a loss. The Bonnie Dick was to be a “pocket carrier”, able to deploy with up to 15 F-35B’s, as opposed to the antique AV-8B Harriers she previously carried. We will not build another LHD to replace her, but we are building the America (LHA-6) class, which is also a pocket carrier.
Gonna spend $30 million to scrap it.
4 billion bucks into the dumper.