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From: eleazar!geoffb@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
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Subject: Re: Battleship repairs
Keywords: No Spare Parts
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Date: 13 Jun 89 03:23:35 GMT
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From: eleazar!geoffb@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)

In article <7365@cbnews.ATT.COM> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
>
>
>From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
>    In today's paper, I saw a short item about the Battleship that recently
>(7 weeks ago) had the turret explosion.  It is supposed to be sailing to the
>Meditterranean Sea for duty.  Did they repair the damage that quickly?  Or,
>did they just clean up the mess and send the ship back to sea?  Does anyone
>out there have further details that they can provide publicly?
>

Actually, they didn't do repairs. A the present time the US Navy has no spare
parts to repair the turret on the Iowa (since it's 40 years old) so they have
simply cranked it back in to position and sealed it.
Speculation now is wether this is all they plan to do or if they will
remover the turret and replace it with more tomahawk missiles.


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