US Navy ships and weapon systems

One weekend every year or so as long as you have enough planes available... not real war, just play war.

Who shall we invade this week?

Sorry availability of the toys is currently 40% can you give us a months warning and we should have enough planes and ships ready for the job...

Such a modern stealthy looking bow and then that gun and those missile launchers look so out of place and unstealthy... and that pipe with the blue water stains... is that their toilet duck keeping their loo water fresh and germ free pumped straight into the ocean?

Looks like it needs a good coat of paint...

They might be failed... ie useless for their intended role, but they do contain secret technology and design features that would mean they wouldn't be allowed to be sold to just anyone... it is like they wont sell old F-117s to Egypt... while a country they might sell them to... like Israel or Australia might not have an actual use for them and therefore decline the offer. (Japan tends to prefer to make its own versions of US gear... which normally turn out to be eye wateringly expensive... but they don't care... it is money spent in their economy so it doesn't really matter....)

They finnaly admit it sucks and it is useless. lol1 So that's like 1 billion $ at the garbage right ?

Have seen youtube videos where the author claimed more like 17 billion has been wasted on LCS ships... so there is rather more invested in these vessels than that...

In 10-5 years, anything is possible. They may also sell them to Egypt, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Indonesia or Ukraine,if it still exists by then.

I doubt they will sell them to anyone... they will pretty much have to strip them of their entire contents as either being too secret or faulty or both, and considering their price there is no country that could afford to buy them at a price that would approach what they cost, so the amount of return you would get is not likely going to be worth it.

The few countries that might be interested in a look would be the countries the US is way to paranoid to let any where near them... and I suspect their interest would be more regarding amusement than professional interest anyway.

Even if they r sold for pennies, the cost of maintaining them in reserve would be saved. A few countries may sign modification, maintenance & upgrade contracts with US firms as well.

Yeah, the reason they want to get rid of them is because they will be expensive to operate or modify or upgrade and they really are no good for their intended purpose.

The chance of anyone else finding a use for them except as a dive wreck is pretty slim...

Japan could buy some of them- they have a huge EEZ with many small islands & may need more ships to deploy in the W. Pac. & the Indian Ocean

My understanding is that the Jap navy is already modern and relatively well equipped... why would they want these dogs?

They have a history of making their own designs based on US designs like the F-15 and F-16 variations and tanks etc, they don't normally take US military surplus crap.

Even if they r sold for pennies, the cost of maintaining them in reserve would be saved. A few countries may sign modification, maintenance & upgrade contracts with US firms as well.

It is well known the US MIC makes a lot of money off service contracts with inflated prices that are effectively bribes to the US... not many countries would put up with such blatantly obvious crap though.

I don't think it'll help them much: even if those SC Sea islands r taken, China can bombard them with BMs until they leave & retake them.

Little value in trying to take them because supporting them would be expensive and complicated by Chinese actions to get them back...

Update: https://www.janes.com/article/93837/bell-boeing-flies-first-osprey-for-us-navy

Wow.... all that time you spent trying to convince me Russia should have a tilt rotor aircraft and the USN didn't even operate one... what a phoney.

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Rodion_Romanovic wrote:https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/03/07/destroyers-left-behind-us-navy-cancels-plans-to-extend-service-lives-of-its-workhorse-ddgs/

Canceled plans to extend life of 27 burke class destroyers (flight I and early flight II ships) from 35 to 45 years, so quite a bit of ships will be retired starting from 2026.

US has currently 62 burke class destroyers,  8 are being built and 13 additional ships (including 11 of the new variant flight III)  have been approved for construction.
Apparently there was plans for building up to 42 ships of the latest (Flight  III) variant, also because there is no replacement for this class (the zumwalt class has been an overexpensive failure).

It is not yet clear what they will do with the Ticonderoga class cruisers too (if they approve the life extension plans) . The US navy has 22 of them and if they don't  extend their life they will  have start retiring them next year, when the oldest of them turns 35 (the youngest Ticonderoga class cruiser is 26 and will turn 35 in 2029)

Just as the INF Treaty dies they plan on retiring nearly half of their Arleigh Burke fleet starting in 2026? Seems counterproductive.

It shows what a joke the INF was. The US used the ridiculous sea-borne exemption to push the intermediate range missiles onto ships.

They no longer have to do this so they can scrap the costly fleet of INF busters. Parking the nuclear tipped cruise missiles onto
Polish, Romanian and other retard soil is cheap and easy. The launchers are there already and they were deployed when the INF
was still active, so they were full on violations.

No treaty with the US has any value. They always cheat and negotiate compromised terms which they can abuse. And they can
extract themselves from any obligations on a moment's notice. So what is the f*cking point of abiding by any treaty that the
USA uses as a disposable fig leaf?

The only thing that works to force US compliance to any sort of sane international behaviour is fear induced by deployed facts
on the ground.