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Originally Posted by SmokinTep
The Seawolf and Conneticutt will be parts boats for the Carter. Since it was to be a muti boat class, the contractors bid to make parts, then lost big time when the class was eliminated to just 3. Sad to say, parts are hard to come by. They were robbing parts off of the Carter while she was being built just to keep the othet 2 operational.
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I have a hard time beleiving that the Navy would take its most capable boats that it already paid for, and are oprational, and turn them into a parts basket. When the Jimmy Carter was made, they had to have made some spares on equipment that is problem prone.
-S