2 $300mm Navy Ships Are Headed To The Scrapyard Without Having Seen A Day Of Service

[mookiemookie]

Ridiculous :nope:

Embroiled by legal battles for more than 25 years, two U.S. Navy ships are finally headed to the scrap heap without ever having sailed and despite the fact that they're almost completely finished.

http://www.businessinsider.com/two-navy-ships-henry-eckford-benjamin-isherwood-scrapyard-2011-7?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+I nsider%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

[Onkel Neal]

Sheesh! They can't sell them to Turkey or something?

Remimds me of the Superconductiong Supercollider project a little :cry:

[TLAM Strike]

Sheesh! They can't sell them to Turkey or something?

Or to the UK so they can be used to resupply their aircraft carrier battle...

...oh...

...right... :shifty:

[August]

I guess nobody wants a single hull tanker anymore.

[antikristuseke]

Aren't single hulled tankers effectively banned anyway?

[GoldenRivet]

Aren't single hulled tankers effectively banned anyway?

yes



it says so in that article nobody read

[FIREWALL]

With the financial state of this country, how many $300m fiascos is it going to take for the taxpayers to wake up and say THAT'S ENOUGH !!!

[Anthony W.]

With the financial state of this country, how many $300m fiascos is it going to take for the taxpayers to wake up and say THAT'S ENOUGH !!!

We tried. 12,000 other people did with me, in the US alone. They say that the first Tea Party protest day had a 300,000 attendance count, and the national in Washington DC (on a different day) had 1.3 million

[FIREWALL]

You do it with the vote when a Senator or Congress person comes up for ReElection. Vote them out of office if their track record shows wastefull spending. Especially ones known as Porkbarrel projects.

[joegrundman]

the problem with that firewall is that people tend to feel most strongly aggravated by porkbarrel contracts awarded to other states than your own.

[Platapus]

Remember, it is only pork when government money is spent in *your* state. When government money is spent in *my* state it is a necessary investment for the people. :yep:

[Jimbuna]

Or to the UK so they can be used to resupply their aircraft carrier battle...

...oh...

...right... :shifty:

Har har :stare:

At 25 years of age we'd have scrapped em whilst they were in their prime...possibly 5 years of age at the most :doh:

[TLAM Strike]

Har har :stare:

At 25 years of age we'd have scrapped em whilst they were in their prime...possibly 5 years of age at the most :doh:

Or given them to Canada. :03:

[Jimbuna]

Or given them to Canada. :03:

I doubt they'd want tankers with all that fuel and such...too much of a fire hazard :dead:

[Krauter]

I doubt they'd want tankers with all that fuel and such...too much of a fire hazard :dead:

Hey it keeps the winter cold out, I'm sure we'd find a use for them :O:

[em2nought]

Looks like an Aegis cruiser sitting next to it, can't believe those things are already on the scrap heap. I think someone has been scrapping in order to ask for new toys. :dead:

oops, looks like CG 60 is still active, guess they just happened to be side by side for some other reason.

[Onkel Neal]

yes



it says so in that article nobody read

I looked at the picture! A picture is worth a 1000 words!

[August]

Looks like an Aegis cruiser sitting next to it, can't believe those things are already on the scrap heap. I think someone has been scrapping in order to ask for new toys. :dead:

oops, looks like CG 60 is still active, guess they just happened to be side by side for some other reason.

According to the wiki article that the picture comes from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USNS_Benjamin_Isherwood_%28T-AO-191%29.jpg

The guided missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG-60) on the right is under routine overhaul at the NORSHIPCO facility near Norfolk. Location: Elizabeth River, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America