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On the problems of modernization of the Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.Text taken from the Telegram channel of kramnikcat Not sure about the terminology used here, so I will replace the most obscure ones with my interpretations, Can't be helped. [ColonelCassad] The US problem with the Ticonderogas modernization can be divided into 3 parts. 1. The state of the industry. Naval ship repair in the US has generally degraded to the level we are used to here against the backdrop of the post-Soviet Achtung: delays in deadlines (sometimes several times), fires on units under repair, low quality of repairs as such, sometimes with the impossibility of sending a repaired steamer to the BS, a shortage of personnel and other delights greatly complicate the maintenance of combat readiness of the fleet. 2. The state of the ships themselves. Before the Ticonderogas, the US only once solved the problem of returning non-aircraft-carrying combat surface ships to service at the age of ~40 years: these were the Iowa-class battleships under Reagan. They met the modernization of the 1980s with a much less exhausted resource (mostly since the mid-1950s they were mothballed) and at a completely different level of industry. At the same time, the modernization of the Iowas was not simple and the forty-year-old steamships did not show miracles of reliability. 3. The most important thing. The same line is ahead for the "Burkes", which were introduced in the successful years in the 1990s and early 2000s at 3-4 units per year. Neither Flight III "Burkes" nor, especially, DDG (X) will be built at this rate, while no ship can be in more than one place at a time. Will the volume of DDG (X) in combination with FFG-62 be enough? Let's see. Ship repair in the States does not show any trends for improvement yet. Drones in the framework of Distributed Lethality will not help much: if the current war proves anything, it is the fact that a drone lives until serious electronic warfare. (c) Ilya Kramnik Posted by: badanov 2024-12-25 |
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