Escoltas Nucleares! A US Navy perdeu o juizo...
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Escoltas Nucleares! A US Navy perdeu o juizo...
"New Committee Chair Wants More Ships, Nuclear Power
By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS, Pascagoula, Miss.
The prospective incoming chairman of an influential U.S. congressional military subcommittee has no difficulty summing up his priorities.
“Shipbuilding, shipbuilding. Getting the numbers of the fleet up,” said Gene Taylor, the Democratic representative who counts among his constituents Northrop Grumman’s sprawling Ingalls shipyard here on the Gulf of Mexico. “Numbers do matter.”
Taylor, ranking member of the House Armed Services projection forces subcommittee, eagerly said Nov. 11 he would seek to chair the committee as Democrats prepare to take over the House and Senate from Republican control.
The Democratic congressional leadership could decide as early as Nov. 16 on committee chairmanships.
The projection forces subcommittee, whose recommendations on major Pentagon acquisition programs form the basis of each year’s House defense authorization bill, has been led by Maryland Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, who focused on major U.S. Navy projects such as the DD(X)/DDG 1000 destroyer, the Littoral Combat Ship and new submarine and aircraft carrier shipbuilding programs.
Taylor emphasized he too would focus on building up the Navy’s fleet. Asked if he supported the Navy’s planned seven-ship buy for DDG 1000, Taylor said “I think we can do better.”
“As the ships perform — they’re magnificently made, they perform magnificently — as the Navy sees these assets my hunch is they’re going to ask for more and I plan on being in position to help them get more,” he said.
Taylor also echoed another of Bartlett’s favorite themes: Taking another look at nuclear propulsion for Navy surface ships to lessen the country’s dependence on foreign sources of energy.
Although all new Navy aircraft carriers and submarines are nuclear-powered, the service decommissioned its fleet of nine nuclear cruiser carrier escorts in the mid-1990s as too expensive to maintain or build, and most surface ships built since then have been powered by gas turbines. But Taylor said he would hold hearings to re-examine the idea.
“The Achilles heel of the American military — and it’s nothing that our enemies don’t already know — is fuel,” he said.
“Adm. [Hyman] Rickover [a Navy champion for nuclear-powered ships from the 1940s to 1980s] had us well on our way in the early 1960s to a fleet that didn’t count on foreign countries for its fuel,” Taylor said. “And even back then the country produced more than half its fuel. Now that we produce way less than half of our fuel it just makes abundant sense that one of the ways we can cut our dependence on foreign oil is to build as many surface ships as we can — even some of the smaller ones — that have nuclear power.”
Taylor noted that the DDG 1000 is too far along to effect changes in its power source — construction of the first two ships will be ordered in 2007 — but he is looking squarely at the follow-on design planned by the Navy, the CG(X) cruiser variant of the DDG design. The service plans to order its first CG(X) in 2011.
“That’s still in the mix,” Taylor said of the CG(X).
“So one of my challenges — and I feel pretty confident that I’ll have the assistance of Congressman Bartlett on the Republican side — is to see that that generation of ships and all subsequent generations of ships are nuclear-powered.”
And if the Navy doesn’t want to build more DDG 1000 destroyers?
“If the Navy says they’re ready to move on to CG(X), and it’s going to be nuclear-powered, then I’m going to be there with them,” declared Taylor. "
http://defensenews.com/story.php?F=2354833&C=america
Portanto, o DDG 1000, o LCS e agora isto!
Enlouqueceram, completamente loucos, alguém no Pentágono deve estar a uivar à lua...
A gastarem mais de 4% do seu PIB em defesa, com um orçamento militar que corresponde a mais de 50% dos gastos do planeta inteiro e as noticias que nos chegam, desde as ultimas eleições para o Senado e para o congresso Norte Americano, é que estão a considerar enviar mais 20000 homens para o Iraque, que tencionam adquirir mais F22 do que os 180 planeados. E finalmente isto, mais navios e com propulsão nuclear (que é horrendamente dispendiosa).
Completamente chanfrados...
By CHRISTOPHER P. CAVAS, Pascagoula, Miss.
The prospective incoming chairman of an influential U.S. congressional military subcommittee has no difficulty summing up his priorities.
“Shipbuilding, shipbuilding. Getting the numbers of the fleet up,” said Gene Taylor, the Democratic representative who counts among his constituents Northrop Grumman’s sprawling Ingalls shipyard here on the Gulf of Mexico. “Numbers do matter.”
Taylor, ranking member of the House Armed Services projection forces subcommittee, eagerly said Nov. 11 he would seek to chair the committee as Democrats prepare to take over the House and Senate from Republican control.
The Democratic congressional leadership could decide as early as Nov. 16 on committee chairmanships.
The projection forces subcommittee, whose recommendations on major Pentagon acquisition programs form the basis of each year’s House defense authorization bill, has been led by Maryland Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, who focused on major U.S. Navy projects such as the DD(X)/DDG 1000 destroyer, the Littoral Combat Ship and new submarine and aircraft carrier shipbuilding programs.
Taylor emphasized he too would focus on building up the Navy’s fleet. Asked if he supported the Navy’s planned seven-ship buy for DDG 1000, Taylor said “I think we can do better.”
“As the ships perform — they’re magnificently made, they perform magnificently — as the Navy sees these assets my hunch is they’re going to ask for more and I plan on being in position to help them get more,” he said.
Taylor also echoed another of Bartlett’s favorite themes: Taking another look at nuclear propulsion for Navy surface ships to lessen the country’s dependence on foreign sources of energy.
Although all new Navy aircraft carriers and submarines are nuclear-powered, the service decommissioned its fleet of nine nuclear cruiser carrier escorts in the mid-1990s as too expensive to maintain or build, and most surface ships built since then have been powered by gas turbines. But Taylor said he would hold hearings to re-examine the idea.
“The Achilles heel of the American military — and it’s nothing that our enemies don’t already know — is fuel,” he said.
“Adm. [Hyman] Rickover [a Navy champion for nuclear-powered ships from the 1940s to 1980s] had us well on our way in the early 1960s to a fleet that didn’t count on foreign countries for its fuel,” Taylor said. “And even back then the country produced more than half its fuel. Now that we produce way less than half of our fuel it just makes abundant sense that one of the ways we can cut our dependence on foreign oil is to build as many surface ships as we can — even some of the smaller ones — that have nuclear power.”
Taylor noted that the DDG 1000 is too far along to effect changes in its power source — construction of the first two ships will be ordered in 2007 — but he is looking squarely at the follow-on design planned by the Navy, the CG(X) cruiser variant of the DDG design. The service plans to order its first CG(X) in 2011.
“That’s still in the mix,” Taylor said of the CG(X).
“So one of my challenges — and I feel pretty confident that I’ll have the assistance of Congressman Bartlett on the Republican side — is to see that that generation of ships and all subsequent generations of ships are nuclear-powered.”
And if the Navy doesn’t want to build more DDG 1000 destroyers?
“If the Navy says they’re ready to move on to CG(X), and it’s going to be nuclear-powered, then I’m going to be there with them,” declared Taylor. "
http://defensenews.com/story.php?F=2354833&C=america
Portanto, o DDG 1000, o LCS e agora isto!
Enlouqueceram, completamente loucos, alguém no Pentágono deve estar a uivar à lua...
A gastarem mais de 4% do seu PIB em defesa, com um orçamento militar que corresponde a mais de 50% dos gastos do planeta inteiro e as noticias que nos chegam, desde as ultimas eleições para o Senado e para o congresso Norte Americano, é que estão a considerar enviar mais 20000 homens para o Iraque, que tencionam adquirir mais F22 do que os 180 planeados. E finalmente isto, mais navios e com propulsão nuclear (que é horrendamente dispendiosa).
Completamente chanfrados...
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A USN já chegou a ter navios nucleares (sem ser os porta-aviões)...
USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach and USS Bainbridge in formation in the Mediterranean, 18 June 1964. Enterprise crewmembers are spelling out Einstein’s equation on the flight deck. This was the first all-nuclear battle formation.
Se bem que eu não concordo com DDX, com mais F-22, mais soldados no Iraque... o DOD americano tá ficando louco...
USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach and USS Bainbridge in formation in the Mediterranean, 18 June 1964. Enterprise crewmembers are spelling out Einstein’s equation on the flight deck. This was the first all-nuclear battle formation.
Se bem que eu não concordo com DDX, com mais F-22, mais soldados no Iraque... o DOD americano tá ficando louco...
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“Shipbuilding, shipbuilding. Getting the numbers of the fleet up,” said Gene Taylor, the Democratic representative who counts among his constituents Northrop Grumman’s sprawling Ingalls shipyard here on the Gulf of Mexico. “Numbers do matter.”
Os "Lobbyes" em acção....
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Bolovo escreveu:A USN já chegou a ter navios nucleares (sem ser os porta-aviões)...
USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach and USS Bainbridge in formation in the Mediterranean, 18 June 1964. Enterprise crewmembers are spelling out Einstein’s equation on the flight deck. This was the first all-nuclear battle formation.
Se bem que eu não concordo com DDX, com mais F-22, mais soldados no Iraque... o DOD americano tá ficando louco...
As escoltas nucleares da US Navy foram retiradas de serviço porque eram brutalmente caras de manter...
O DOD está a ficar mesmo doido...
Sintra escreveu:Bolovo escreveu:A USN já chegou a ter navios nucleares (sem ser os porta-aviões)...
USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach and USS Bainbridge in formation in the Mediterranean, 18 June 1964. Enterprise crewmembers are spelling out Einstein’s equation on the flight deck. This was the first all-nuclear battle formation.
Se bem que eu não concordo com DDX, com mais F-22, mais soldados no Iraque... o DOD americano tá ficando louco...
As escoltas nucleares da US Navy foram retiradas de serviço porque eram brutalmente caras de manter...
O DOD está a ficar mesmo doido...
Acho é que estão a ficar sem petróleo ... O juízo vem depois e esse é sempre relativo. Depende sempre do ponto de vista.
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Bronco escreveu:Sintra escreveu:Bolovo escreveu:A USN já chegou a ter navios nucleares (sem ser os porta-aviões)...
USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach and USS Bainbridge in formation in the Mediterranean, 18 June 1964. Enterprise crewmembers are spelling out Einstein’s equation on the flight deck. This was the first all-nuclear battle formation.
Se bem que eu não concordo com DDX, com mais F-22, mais soldados no Iraque... o DOD americano tá ficando louco...
As escoltas nucleares da US Navy foram retiradas de serviço porque eram brutalmente caras de manter...
O DOD está a ficar mesmo doido...
Acho é que estão a ficar sem petróleo ... O juízo vem depois e esse é sempre relativo. Depende sempre do ponto de vista.
Antecipando-se á retirada inglória do Iraque
estão a ver que a mama vai acabar
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Sintra escreveu: As escoltas nucleares da US Navy foram retiradas de serviço porque eram brutalmente caras de manter...
Caro Cintra, acho que quem se dá ao luxo de contruir 20 B-2 e cada um custar a "módica" quantia de 2 biliões de dólares a preços de há uns bons anos, e quem se dá ao luxo de construir caças ao preço únitário já na casa das centenas de milhões de dólares, (nem vou arriscar a dizer quanto é que custa um F-22, porque já ouvi tantas versões que tou completamente confuso ) quem se dá ao luxo de todas e mais algumas excentricidades nesta área, é porque tem dinheiro de sobra e já não sabe o que fazer com tanto.
Acho que brutalmente caro para os EUA é coisa que não existe e a existir só vai trazer complicações tipo pesos na consciência se não atuarem logo. Brutalmente caro é coisa "tabu". O brutalmente caro é exactamente o efeito "viagra" mas ao contrário.
Mérito deles porque reflete a pujança económica avassaladora, concerteza, mas não deixa de ser também um contra-censo, porque isso também representa um atentado á paz quando temos tipos como Bush & companhia Ld., á frente dos destinos desse país.
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Pentagon Contract Announcement
(Source: US Department of Defense; issued Nov. 30, 2006)
Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $754,011,210 modification (cost type) to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-2118) for continuation of CVN 21 design effort; long lead time material and non-nuclear advance construction; and system development, engineering services, and feasibility studies for the Future Aircraft Carrier Program.
Also will provide all CVN 21 services and material in preparation for ship construction planned to commence in FY08, including the necessary research studies; engineering; design; related development efforts including required Engineering Development Models and prototypes for engineered components; advanced planning; advanced procurement for detailed design and procurement/fabrication of long lead material; advanced construction, system specifications; design weight estimate; logistics data; lists of government-furnished equipment; production planning; further definition of initiatives to reduce CVN 21 total ownership costs; and other data to support an integrated product data environment for CVN 21.
Work will be performed in Newport News, Va. (90 percent) and Groton, Conn. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (ends)
Northrop Grumman Awarded $860.6 Million Contract Modification for CVN 21 Aircraft Carrier Program
(Source: Northrop Grumman Corp.; issued Nov. 30, 2006)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation received an $860.6 million contract modification to a previously awarded contract for continuation of work on the CVN 21 aircraft carrier program. The base contract modification is valued at approximately $754 million with an additional $106.7 million in options. This additional work brings the total value of the contract to $2.2 billion.
The company's Newport News sector will perform the work, which includes the continuation of ship design activities, procurement of long-lead time materials to support construction, and advanced construction work on select parts of the ship.
“We are making good progress on the design,'' said Mike Shawcross, vice president of the CVN 21 program for Northrop Grumman Newport News. “We're more than 50 percent complete with the overall design. This contract modification will carry us through 2007 to the next major milestone when we will establish the construction contract for the first ship in the class, CVN 78.''
Advance construction began in 2005 for the CVN 78. This work allows shipbuilders to test the design-build strategy before overall construction begins in 2008.
The CVN 78 class will be a more capable class of carriers. Enhancements being incorporated into the design include flight deck changes, improved weapons handling systems, and a redesigned island, resulting in increased sortie rates; a new nuclear power plant; increased electrical power generation capacity; allowance for future technologies and reduced workload for the sailors, translating to a smaller crew size and lower operating costs for the Navy.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.
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(Source: US Department of Defense; issued Nov. 30, 2006)
Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $754,011,210 modification (cost type) to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-2118) for continuation of CVN 21 design effort; long lead time material and non-nuclear advance construction; and system development, engineering services, and feasibility studies for the Future Aircraft Carrier Program.
Also will provide all CVN 21 services and material in preparation for ship construction planned to commence in FY08, including the necessary research studies; engineering; design; related development efforts including required Engineering Development Models and prototypes for engineered components; advanced planning; advanced procurement for detailed design and procurement/fabrication of long lead material; advanced construction, system specifications; design weight estimate; logistics data; lists of government-furnished equipment; production planning; further definition of initiatives to reduce CVN 21 total ownership costs; and other data to support an integrated product data environment for CVN 21.
Work will be performed in Newport News, Va. (90 percent) and Groton, Conn. (10 percent), and is expected to be completed by December 2007. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.
The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (ends)
Northrop Grumman Awarded $860.6 Million Contract Modification for CVN 21 Aircraft Carrier Program
(Source: Northrop Grumman Corp.; issued Nov. 30, 2006)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. --- Northrop Grumman Corporation received an $860.6 million contract modification to a previously awarded contract for continuation of work on the CVN 21 aircraft carrier program. The base contract modification is valued at approximately $754 million with an additional $106.7 million in options. This additional work brings the total value of the contract to $2.2 billion.
The company's Newport News sector will perform the work, which includes the continuation of ship design activities, procurement of long-lead time materials to support construction, and advanced construction work on select parts of the ship.
“We are making good progress on the design,'' said Mike Shawcross, vice president of the CVN 21 program for Northrop Grumman Newport News. “We're more than 50 percent complete with the overall design. This contract modification will carry us through 2007 to the next major milestone when we will establish the construction contract for the first ship in the class, CVN 78.''
Advance construction began in 2005 for the CVN 78. This work allows shipbuilders to test the design-build strategy before overall construction begins in 2008.
The CVN 78 class will be a more capable class of carriers. Enhancements being incorporated into the design include flight deck changes, improved weapons handling systems, and a redesigned island, resulting in increased sortie rates; a new nuclear power plant; increased electrical power generation capacity; allowance for future technologies and reduced workload for the sailors, translating to a smaller crew size and lower operating costs for the Navy.
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a $30 billion global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide.
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