The US Navy Is Going To Spend $400m To Repair The USS Miami

[unhappycamper]

rather than spend another $5 to $7 billion dollars for a new Virginia-class sub.



http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/apnewsbreak-navy-repair-burned-maine-17031145
Navy to Repair Sub That Caught Fire in Maine

The U.S. Navy intends to repair a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was severely damaged by a fire while in dry dock and then return it to the fleet, Navy officials Friday.

While engineering assessments are ongoing, the Navy has decided to repair the USS Miami and is committed to doing so, Navy spokeswoman Lt. Courtney Hillson told The Associated Press.

"Our goal is to return the Miami to the fleet because this makes sense operationally and fiscally," Hillson said.

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The Naval Criminal Investigative Service said shipyard worker Casey James Fury confessed to setting the fire.



unhappycamper comment: $400,000,000 is less than $5,000,000,000, so I guess this is a 'bargain'.

[Ezlivin]

1. It does make fiscal sense

An old LA-class boat is good enough. Honestly.

I can remember participating in an exercise called "Colonel Potlatch" where my old boat, the USS Skate, "sunk" the latest in Anti-Submarine Warfare ships that the U.S. had at the time. Apart from the Soviet Union, no one had any advanced submarines to worry about.

As an aside, the first LA-class boat I toured was the USS Los Angeles. It docked next to us at Sub Base in Pearl Harbor in 1979 and a friend of mine invited me over for a tour. Very impressive at the time. Compared to the Skate, the Los Angeles was a roomy, modern boat. I was envious!