{"id":253405,"date":"2022-05-13T07:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253405"},"modified":"2022-05-14T06:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T06:19:32","slug":"us-navy-chief-defends-plan-to-scrap-troubled-warships-even-though-some-are-less-than-3-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253405","title":{"rendered":"US Navy chief defends plan to scrap troubled warships even though some are less than 3 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Oren Lieberman, Ellie Kaufman and Brad Lendon \u2013 CNN May 12, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The chief of the US Navy defended the service&#8217;s plans to scrap nine relatively new warships in the coming fiscal year even as the service tries to keep up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/05\/china\/china-world-biggest-navy-intl-hnk-ml-dst\/index.html\">China&#8217;s growing fleet<\/a>. Three of the littoral combat ships slated for decommissioning are less than three years old.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday that the anti-submarine ships could not perform their primary mission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I refuse to put an additional dollar against a system that would not be able to track a high-end submarine in today&#8217;s environment,&#8221; Gilday told the committee. He said the main reason for the early retirement was that the anti-submarine warfare system on the ships &#8220;did not work out technically.&#8221; The decommissioning of the ships would save the Navy approximately $391 million, according to the service&#8217;s proposed FY23 budget.<\/p>\n<p>But that recoups only a fraction of the cost of the nine littoral combat ships, which totaled about $3.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The USS Indianapolis, USS Billings and USS Wichita were all commissioned in 2019, which means the Navy plans on decommissioning ships that are only a fraction of the way into their expected service life. The Navy also plans to retire six other littoral combat ships, all of the single-hull Freedom-variant, as opposed to the trimaran Independence-variant. Both variants can achieve speeds of 40+ knots.<\/p>\n<p>Under a 2016 Navy plan, the Freedom-class variants were all homeported Mayport, Florida, mainly for use in Atlantic Ocean operations. The Independence-class variants were homeported in San Diego, and designated for mainly Pacific operations.<\/p>\n<p>The decision amounts to an embarrassing admission that some of the Navy&#8217;s newest ships are not fit for modern warfare.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/12\/politics\/us-navy-scrap-warships\/index.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Navy plans to decommission nine of its newest ships worth $3.2 billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253406,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253405\/revisions\/253406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}