Well, the navy doesn’t call me for advice either.
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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?
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I'm willing to bet updating those items would pretty much make it a clean sheet design.
"I want a '57 Chevy, but make it a plug in hybrid, make it meet modern safety standards, and install a digital entertainment system."
But maybe an update is less risky and provides fewer opportunities for costly capability creep and expensive design changes.
Unbelievable. The Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Boise has been in overhaul for 10 years with $800 million spent and only 22% complete - Navy finally decided enough is enough.
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Navy Calls It Quits On Attack Submarine USS Boise's Never Ending Overhaul
The USS Boise been in port for more than a third of its career, and was still years and billions of dollars away from returning to service.
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Isn’t that the second one in recent years like that? I can’t remember the other one, maybe it was Connecticut?Unbelievable. The Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Boise has been in overhaul for 10 years with $800 million spent and only 22% complete - Navy finally decided enough is enough.
Navy Calls It Quits On Attack Submarine USS Boise's Never Ending Overhaul
The USS Boise been in port for more than a third of its career, and was still years and billions of dollars away from returning to service.
Check.
Point of order...the OHP class has LM2500s, but only two of them. There isn't room for 4, like everyone else. It also has 4 diesel generators instead of the Allison turbine generators...again because of room (and I'd guess weight as well). Even on one engine (where it usually operates), it also doesn't have the room for much fuel, so it can either sprint for a short period or travel at slow cruise for a while but still doesn't have the gas to go more than a major port away (trans-atlantic or half a trans-pacific).
There's also the problem of the superstructure, which is aluminum, and the fact it doesn't react well to steel. So you'd need to redesign a new material sciences plan for that (which is probably heavier).
And then there's the last major problem...there are no OHPs left for us to redesign. So you can redesign it on paper, but it's building from scratch which like Phrog said, is essentially starting over (in addition to all of the new electronics that would need to be designed and integrated).
The FFG was a Coast Guard cutter that works reasonably well in that use case, but beyond that, it wasn't designed for blue water ops and/or to keep up with the CVN.
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The USS Miami had the arson and the damage caused was too expensive to repair.
Spekkio
He bowls overhand.
USS Helena has been in NNSY for 9 years.
Newport News is incapable of doing EOH / EDSRAs on 688 class SSNs, but we pull the boats in there because they have contract.