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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Battleship repairs
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Date: 14 Jun 89 03:26:49 GMT
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From: welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)

In article <7398@cbnews.ATT.COM>, Geoff Bronner writes: 
*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.

???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the navy has publicly stated that repair is feasible and reasonably
economical, and that the repairs have been delayed in order to avoid
fouling up yard scheduling.  while some spares may not be in inventory,
as near as i can tell the Navy retained the tooling for nearly
everything in these ships, with the possible exception of the
electro-mechanical fire-control computers.  keep in mind that such
fire-control systems are not a lost art; i don't know about the newest
attack subs, but quite a few (most?) relatively modern US subs still
use such systems.

richard
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