http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/ The Future of the Military, Law Enforcement and National Security Thu, 24 May 2012 23:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/#comment-128748 stephen russell Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:09:28 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3155#comment-128748 CUT NG bureucracy & Navy DC bureaucracy alone would Help. Borrow from that Russian Hybrid sub: Diesel Electric & Nuke power plant. Nice. Then we can have 48 subs. Reduce the costs. Bring in new blood for contracts. Redesign VA??? If the Russians can, why cant we? CUT NG bureucracy & Navy DC bureaucracy alone would Help.
Borrow from that Russian Hybrid sub:
Diesel Electric & Nuke power plant.
Nice.
Then we can have 48 subs.
Reduce the costs.
Bring in new blood for contracts.
Redesign VA???
If the Russians can, why cant we?

]]> http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/#comment-128747 POD Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:06:25 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3155#comment-128747 Ther are always the COLLINS Boats @ $800 Million Aust apiece from good Old Oz. They are the largest conventional boats in the world and a damn fine piece of kit but then I may be biased being Australian. Cheers, POD Ther are always the COLLINS Boats @ $800 Million Aust apiece from good Old Oz.
They are the largest conventional boats in the world and a damn fine piece of kit but then I may be biased being Australian.
Cheers,
POD

]]> http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/#comment-128746 Idealistic Ideology Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:23:20 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3155#comment-128746 I love this... "The best anti-submarine weapon is another sumbarine." Bron Skinner. Is there equal truth in the reverse proposal, "The best antidote for a war machine is to eliminate all of them?" I love this… “The best anti-submarine weapon is another sumbarine.” Bron Skinner.
Is there equal truth in the reverse proposal, “The best antidote for a war machine is to eliminate all of them?”

]]> http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/#comment-47272 Jay Strauss Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:46:01 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3155#comment-47272 i believe Joe Buff.The only credible non Gov.person that has any credibility. i believe Joe Buff.The only credible non Gov.person that has any credibility.

]]> http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/#comment-128744 Jimmy Wu Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:45:18 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3155#comment-128744 I thought that one of the original Virginia innovations was supposed to be a modular mission package, ie SEAL vs ASW vs ASuW, to enhance flexibility and save on cost. Don't know if that plan has disappeared. For example, one of the old plans was, to create an SLBM module, so that the Virginia class can serve as a follow-on replacement for the Ohio class. [Don't know how to practically implement this idea, just repeating what I read.] So given this idea, it simply means that the Navy is not buying as many SEAL modules as they planned. Or that they'll buy the modules later. I thought that one of the original Virginia innovations was supposed to be a modular mission package, ie SEAL vs ASW vs ASuW, to enhance flexibility and save on cost. Don’t know if that plan has disappeared.
For example, one of the old plans was, to create an SLBM module, so that the Virginia class can serve as a follow-on replacement for the Ohio class.
[Don’t know how to practically implement this idea, just repeating what I read.]
So given this idea, it simply means that the Navy is not buying as many SEAL modules as they planned. Or that they’ll buy the modules later.

]]> http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/#comment-128743 sglover Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:59:19 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3155#comment-128743 Is the submarine force really providing any strategic benefit to the country? I mean, something beyond employing submariners and shipbuilders? Is the submarine force really providing any strategic benefit to the country? I mean, something beyond employing submariners and shipbuilders?

]]> http://defensetech.org/2006/04/19/cost-cutting-the-super-sub/#comment-128742 JSAllison Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:23:28 +0000 http://deftech.usmilblog.com/?p=3155#comment-128742 So, lose the SEAL capability and you pretty much lose the raison d'etre for the thing...Now that's some cost cutting... So, lose the SEAL capability and you pretty much lose the raison d’etre for the thing…Now that’s some cost cutting…

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