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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Battleship repairs
Summary: Iowa Repairs not yet completed
Message-ID: <7399@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 89 03:23:37 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <7365@cbnews.ATT.COM>, Jim Pritchett writes: 
*    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?

they just cleaned things up; yard time for major warships is scheduled
well in advance and taking the ship in for immediate repair would have
rather upset scheduling; besides, this allows them to petition Congress
to make the repairs an explicit budget FY '90 item -- otherwise it would
come out of FY '89 discretionary funds (which i hear are rather depleted.)

Keep in mind that Iowa still has 6 operable 16" guns in her primary
battery, 6 operable dual-5" turrets in her secondary battery, and
magazines full of Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles.  She still has
a bit of a punch, even with one 16" turret disabled.

word is they will be using the B turret for training purposes, but will
not be firing with it on this cruise.

richard
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