A good person becomes an acquaintance if he gets caught up in the fire, and if he gets too hot, he will die. The US Navy's "Wasp" class amphibious assault ship "Goodman Richard" (LHD-6) suddenly caught fire in the San Diego Naval Port in California in July this year. After more than half a year, the US Navy announced that the repair cost was too high. Now, the "good guy" dismantles his retirement and becomes a "dead person".
According to a report on the US "Navy Times" website, on November 30 local time, Major General Eric Ver Hage, Commander of the US Naval Regional Repair Center, confirmed that a major fire took place on July 12 this year. Since then, the flight deck, island, and mast of the 40,000-ton amphibious assault ship "Goodman Richard" has suffered extensive damage, and up to 60% of the parts need to be replaced.
Picture: "Goodman Richard"
. In terms of the high labor and budget of the US Navy ship repair or shipyard, repairing this amphibious assault ship that entered service in August 1998 would be an amazing cost. Major General Hag said that it is estimated that repairing the 22-year-old amphibious assault ship will cost between 2.5 and 3.2 billion US dollars and will take 5 to 7 years. Even if it is converted into a hospital ship, it will cost more than 10 100 million US dollars, almost the same as new construction. Picture of
: The ship island was severely damaged
. What's worse, the "Good Man Richard" was already undergoing modification at the time of the accident, which cost a lot of money. At the Naval Shipyard in San Diego, this amphibious assault ship has spent 18 months refitting to accommodate the F-35B stealth carrier-based short-range/vertical take-off and landing fighter on board, and the related upgrade work has already cost 2.5 100 million U.S. dollars, this part of the investment has been completely wiped out.
Picture: The repair is too difficult.
Originally, this modification had a vital impact on the US Navy's ability to maintain a strong "sea to land" ultra-horizon landing operation. Of the 10 amphibious assault ships currently in service in the US Navy, there are 8 "Wasp" class and 2 "U.S." class. The second "U.S." class ship "Tripoli" is the third day after the accident of the "Good Man", this July These amphibious warships, which were in service only on the 15th, have the same tonnage as the medium-sized aircraft carriers of other countries, and all have powerful aviation strike capabilities. Image of
: The "American" class amphibious assault ship
has a large number of "Wasp" class, originally equipped with Boeing (actually McDonnell Douglas) AV-8B "Harrier" II vertical take-off and landing fighter, carrying more than 20 rotors In the case of aircraft (including various helicopters and MV-22 "Osprey" tilt-rotor transport aircraft), it can carry 6-8 aircraft. There have been many upgrades to carry F-35Bs with much stronger stealth and strike capabilities. Carrying more than 12 aircraft, the "Wasp" has been transformed, and the US Marine Corps has also called these upgraded "Wasp" and "U.S." classes "Lightning (F-35 nickname) aircraft carriers." Image of
: The upgraded "Wasp"
and now, even Major General Hager has to admit: "This is a tragic loss of one of the navy's most powerful symbols of maritime power." Major General
Hager disclosed that this amphibious attack The ship, before being towed to the Gulf Coast shipyard for decommissioning, will strip some useful parts from the San Diego Naval Port. After all, it has undergone related upgrades before the fire broke out. Only 7 of the 8 "Wasps" class remain. Before turning into scrap metal, the US Navy, which "the landlord has no food left", hopes it will be a "good man" again. Image of
: Compared with the super nuclear aircraft carrier, the 10 amphibious assault ships of the US Navy are transforming into a "quasi-aircraft carrier" position. Now it is impossible to lose one ship inexplicably. It is impossible to say that they are not painful.
