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From: apctrc!crx34!zrra07@uunet.UU.NET (Randall R. Appleton)
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Subject: Re: Fleet and Budget
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Date: 2 Jul 90 03:10:11 GMT
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From: apctrc!crx34!zrra07@uunet.UU.NET (Randall R. Appleton)

In article <1990Jun30.053848.4400@cbnews.att.com> tek@CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
>
>In FY90 and FY91, 54 ships will be retired including these ships:
>22 DDGs in Charles F. Adams and Coontz classes
>14 SSNs in Skipjack, Permit, Sturgeon and Glenard P. Lipscomb classes 
>
>In January, the DoD budget request included the following shipbuilding
>plan. No doubt it will have to be modified when the final budget is
>approved. 
>
>	Type			       Actual	----------Proposed----------
>					FY90	FY91	FY92	FY93	FY94
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Improved LA class SSN			 1	 -	 -	 -	 -
>Seawolf SSN				 -	 2	 -	 6	 -
>Arleigh Burke class DDG	(Aegis)		 5	 5	10	 -	10
>
>An average of 3 Seawolf and 5 Arleigh Burke will be ordered per year.
>But starting in FY91, alternating purchases will be made every two
>years with double the yearly number. 

This seems pretty odd to me.  I understand that the Seawolf SSN is a better
ship than the SkipJack or Lipscomb class SSN's, yet if I were in a money-
saving mood I would wonder if this were a good deal.

I guess my thinking is something like the following.  Assuming I have
a fixed amount of money, I could either....
1) Scrap many older ships; buy a few newer ships
2) Keep many older ships.

It seems pretty clear to me that alothoug quality is important,
quatitity is not, nor are industrial support programs for the Electric Boat
people.

It could very well be there are things here I don't know about...

Any opinions??????

Randy