Reconstitution

[OldSolduer]

I still find it hard to believe a ship yard can not perform a structural fix on a ships hull that makes it as good as new or better.
Engine mechanical problems are even harder to understand why those can't be fixed. Bad engine put a new one in. Bad gear box install a new one.

Metal fatigue enters the chat…

 

[KevinB]

I still find it hard to believe a ship yard can not perform a structural fix on a ships hull that makes it as good as new or better.
Engine mechanical problems are even harder to understand why those can't be fixed. Bad engine put a new one in. Bad gear box install a new one.

I’m not sure what they would call that in the Navy, but I would say you are basically describing building a replacement ship, and ‘keeping’ all the serial numbers from the old one.

Which I am guessing is even more expensive than a new ship. But it does keep the property books clean…

From my understanding the entire point of the DWP’s is to conduct periodic checks and maintenance so things don’t get to this state — but the RCN seems to have been forced into a position of being ridden hard and put away wet — which is not a recipe for success (at least in longevity of one’s equipment).

We’ve done the math in other threads as to what the problem is with the dominos falling of less hulls in the water with the same or greater commitments for hulls.

 

[Rudburg]

Metal fatigue enters the chat…

Absolutely correct. 30 years on the sea, with the hull bending and bowing with every wave, takes a toll on even the strongest steel.

Ships have been lost when they get pushed too far for too long.

 

[OldSolduer]

Absolutely correct. 30 years on the sea, with the hull bending and bowing with every wave, takes a toll on even the strongest steel.

Ships have been lost when they get pushed too far for too long.

Salt water as well I would suspect and heat and cold cycles I would think would contribute.

 

[Lumber]

I still find it hard to believe a ship yard can not perform a structural fix on a ships hull that makes it as good as new or better.
Engine mechanical problems are even harder to understand why those can't be fixed. Bad engine put a new one in. Bad gear box install a new one.

DWPs (the period in dry dock) are done after every 2 or 3 deployments for a given ship, and were traditionally meant take approximately 1 year and cost a few 10s of millions of dollars.

We are now at DWPs taking 3+ years and $750 million.

 

[FSTO]

We can't tell the truth because we haven't up 'til now, so why start?

Nobody has? Was Sajan (I pick him because he was actually deployed) that clueless that even he didn’t know the state of the CAF?