"Dismantling the USS Enterprise" Topic

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Tango01	06 Aug 2018 10:18 p.m. PST
"Scrapping the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier could cost the Navy as much as $1.5 USD billion and take more than a decade to complete, according to the Government Accountability Office. But the final price tag and the future timetable for dismantling the decommissioned Enterprise ultimately will depend on whether the Navy can contract with a private shipyard to finish the job or make its Puget Sound Naval Shipyard do the work. The private sector option would be cheaper and faster, but the project is tangled in bureaucratic red tape, the federal watchdog agency warned in a report released on Thursday…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
Andrew Walters	07 Aug 2018 10:48 a.m. PST
I would be tempted to just park it somewhere and see if everyone forgets about it.
Tango01	07 Aug 2018 11:13 a.m. PST
(smile) Amicalement Armand
ThePeninsularWarin15mm	07 Aug 2018 2:12 p.m. PST
A more fun trick would be to repaint it and appear to refurbish it and gift it to Japan and just watch as China fumes.
Lion in the Stars	07 Aug 2018 2:13 p.m. PST
I think PSNS would have to rip the reactors out before you could turn the hull over to civilian shipbreakers.
Thresher01	18 Aug 2018 1:07 p.m. PST
A pity they just don't make it into a museum piece, which it seems highly qualified to be.

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