Bloomberg: Delays at naval shipyards mean that nearly 40% of US attack submarines are out of commission for repairs, about double the rate the Navy would like, according to new data released by the service.
As of this year, 18 of the US Navy’s 49 attack submarines — 37% — were out of commission, according to previously undisclosed Navy data published by the Congressional Research Service. That leaves the US at a critical disadvantage against China’s numerically superior fleet.
The maintenance backlog has “substantially reduced” the number of nuclear submarines operational at any given moment, cutting the “force’s capacity for meeting day-to-day mission demands and potentially putting increased operational pressure” on submarines that are in service, CRS naval analyst Ronald O’Rourke said in a July 6 report.
That’s up from 28% overall in 2017 and 33% in 2022, and below the industry best practice of 20%. more
Take a look at the USS Growler (SSG-577) HERE and Here.
not to worry, die-versity will protect ‘Merica – there is a new cno-twat! plus trans-its can avoid deployment, should help a lot. & the oiler named after groomer h. milk will be at the tip of the spear.
A bunch of sub are being decommissioned.
They aren’t even inviting the plank owners to go any ceremonies for them.
My brother is a plank owner of the USS Key West.
He was Senior Sonar Operator. Even had his dolphins.
Then he was on the Boise.
They aren’t replacing them as of now either.
Don’t need ’em in the nuclear war they are planning to get rid of us peasants. An 18 wheeler will do just fine.
A buddy who recently retired as a COB on fast attack subs told me they are probably being re-fitted with new PRONOUNS to make the Pentagon faggots happy!
That’s the ones they are admitting to. What is more concerning is how many are deployed in which deployable has been redefined down and are putting personnel at higher than previously accepted risk to make it look like the lavender initiative is just as functional?
Doesn’t matter! We have a black SECDEF and that’s all that matters.
No surprise, considering the Commander-in-Chief is completely compromised to America’s enemies who might have to otherwise face the subs out of commissions. Where the fuck is the GOP on impeaching this treasonsous scumbag Biden?
Pretty sure people who are competent repairing a weapon system that lives under the deep blue are getting hard to find and retain. No surprise there. And I’ll bet big bucks about zero effort is being expended to train people to do so. Because that costs real money and is a drag on that all important quarterly stock projection.
From my admittedly narrow viewpoint, in Interstate natural gas transmission, we’re in the same dire straights. We can’t keep younger people long enough to train them. They find out this is job, rather than a position. It can pay well, but you have to put in the time.
We have a better weapon.
Broadcast VP Harris’ speech to our enemies as loud as possible. That nasal whiny voice will be a great deterrent.
I used to think we had ‘oversight’ committees and other contingency plans that would prevent outlaws from taking over America….guess I was wrong.
Whine, whine, whine. Big deal. The important thing is that the DEI and Affirmative Action Bureaucracies are fully funded and growing rapidly. Operation Transgender Transition is ahead of schedule and under budget.