Brand auf USS Bonhomme Richard, San Diego Einstellungen

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Explosion mit Verletzten und Folgebrand auf der USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) im Marinestützpunkt San Diego.

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For the fire-ravaged ship Bonhomme Richard, the US Navy has no good options

By: David B. Larter, September 30 [2020]



WASHINGTON – In deciding how to move forward with the warped and carbonized hulk of the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard, U.S. Navy leaders face a series of choices and all of them are bad.

The Navy has not yet produced an estimate to repair the damage to the ship, which burned for five days in July. Assessing the full extent of the five-day fire that gutted much of the upper decks and levels of the ship will take some time yet.

But no matter what the Navy decides, it will be painful.

The bottom line? The Navy can either: fix Bonhomme Richard at enormous cost; replace her with a new LHA, a class of ship that Congressional Research Service says is running about $3.8 billion per hull, further constricting an already squeezed shipbuilding budget; try to pull an old big-deck out of mothballs and overhaul it for a few years of service; or it can cut bait entirely and lose the capacity all together.


https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/09/3...o-good-options/

Update zur USS Bonhomme Richard, die im Juli vier Tage brandte. Die Optionen sind hier ja bereits ähnlich geschildert worden. Genaue Zahlen lassen noch auf sich warten, aber es wird auf keinen Fall eine gute Lösung geben. Entweder teurer Wiederaufbau, noch teurere Neuanschaffung oder Verzicht auf die Kapazität.