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100,000-Ton US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Could Be Out Of Action for a Long Time
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (530+ words) The tell is not the rust. It is that the USS Abraham Lincoln might relocate to Bremerton, which means Puget Sound, which means a long time in dry dock....
The US Air Force Built Only 21 B-2 Spirits and They Cost About $2,000,000,000 Each. It Wants at Least 100 B-21 Raiders at Roughly $750,000,000 Apiece.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (498+ words) The B-2 cost $2,000,000,000 a copy because only 21 were built. The B-21 was designed from the start to avoid that, with cost written in as a performance requirement....
The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (1238+ words) Lockheed refused to bid. Northrop refused to bid, and told the Navy its cost estimate was at least $2,000,000,000 short. The contract fixed a price of $4,840,000,000 on stealth coatings, composites and a radar that did not yet exist. The team that…...
China Is Launching A New Aircraft Carrier Every 20 Months. The US Navy Cannot Deliver One On Time — And The Gap Is The Shipyards.
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (1392+ words) Why can’t the U.S. Navy build aircraft carriers and submarines fast enough to keep pace with China? The answer is neither money nor will. It is that the United States has only two shipyards capable of building nuclear-powered warships, both…...
'A Mistake We Can’t Ever Fix’: The US Navy’s Seawolf-Class Submarine Shortage Makes Russia and China Smile as There Is No Fix
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (537+ words) Virginia-class production has run at roughly 1.1 to 1.2 boats a year since 2022 against a goal of two, while about 24 Los Angeles-class submarines remain in commission and continue to age out. If only the Navy had more Seawolf-class subs....
US Navy Nuclear Attack Submarines Spent 41 Years Idle at the Pier in a Decade. The Navy Paid $230,000 a Day for It.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (662+ words) A GAO report finds US attack submarines spent 41 ship-years idle in a decade at $230,000 a day — the full story....
In 2010 the Royal Navy Tried to Cancel an Aircraft Carrier and Found It Was Cheaper to Build It Than to Scrap It
1+ week, 3+ day ago (383+ words) Two Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines, four diesel generator sets, over 100 megawatts of electrical generation and a 13,000-square-metre flight deck — on a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier Britain tried to cancel....
Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales Has Spent About 1 Third of Its Life in Port Under Repair and Only About 1 Fifth of It at Sea. The 2 Queen Elizabeth-Class Carriers Cost £7,600,000,000
1+ week, 3+ day ago (440+ words) British parliamentary reporting puts HMS Prince of Wales at roughly a third of her service life alongside for repairs. HMS Queen Elizabeth has spent extended periods in dry dock on hull and shaft work....
The 65,000-Ton HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales Are the Largest Aircraft Carriers the Royal Navy Ever Built. Neither Has a Catapult, Which Limits Both Ships to 1 Aircraft: The F-35B
1+ week, 3+ day ago (372+ words) HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales have no catapults and no arresting wires. That rules out the F/A-18, the EA-18G Growler, the E-2D Hawkeye and the F-35C, leaving only the F-35B....
100,000-ton US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Will Soon Have Flying Gas Station MQ-25A Drones to Fighter Jets Like the F-35 Get More Range
1+ week, 4+ day ago (476+ words) MQ-25A: This unmanned platform will soon deploy from America’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and will serve as what many call a “flying gas station.”...