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originally posted by: machineintelligence
I was noticing that the US has 9 of it's 11 carriers sitting in home ports. This seems to me like a lot of our boats are idle right now. With Syria and Iran and Turkey heating up is seems unwise to have so many boats at home and not deployed. Basically one in the Sea of Japan and one close to the middle east is it right now. It seems prudent to have 2 near Japan and Korea and 2 near the Straits of Hormuz. That still leaves 7 carriers resting at home port.
originally posted by: machineintelligence
a reply to: Fools Certainly not upset about it but am curious as to why have so many ships and not deploy them in times of such political tension is all?
Between 2008 and 2018, attack submarines undergoing heavy maintenance experienced a combined total of more than 8,470 days of delays – equivalent to more than 23 years of total operational time lost. Boats in the aging Los Angeles-class, the Navy’s primary attack submarine type at present, alone accounted for more than 6,280 of those days.
On top of that, attack submarines spent nearly 1,900 days – more than five years of total time – simply sitting idle in port, waiting to begin maintenance availabilities. www.thedrive.com...
originally posted by: nerbot
a reply to: machineintelligence
I'm sure they were paid for in the name of DEFENCE. What's the problem? Not enough WAR for ya?