USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) sits in Dry Dock 4 at Fleet Activities (FLEACT) Yokosuka on July 11, 2017. US Navy Photo
USNI News: HII Awarded $29.4M Planning Contract for USS Fitzgerald Restoration; Total Repairs Estimated at $370M
The shipyard tasked restoring the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) was awarded a $29.4 million for the initial planning work to repair the warship, according to a recent Pentagon contract announcement.
The service announced the ship would be repaired at Huntington Ingalls Industries yard in Mississippi in August.
Fitzgerald collided with a merchant ship on June 17 resulting in the death of seven sailors in a shipping channel off the coast of Japan. In addition to a hole punched in the ship below the waterline, the collision damaged to several high-end electronic systems, such as the integrated radio room on the ship and the starboard forward array of the ship’s A/N-SPY1D(v) air search radar.
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WNU Editor: The cost could have been far worse.
1 comment:
You gotta be freaking kidding me.
- 7 sailors dead
- 370mn repair estimate (it will be >400 in the end)
- One destroyer short while there's tensions with a number of countries, including North Korea, who happens to threaten full out nuclear war
- Image of US Navy damaged (due to several other incidents, not even mentioning the military)
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This was a terrible accident and the families will have to deal with it for years and years to come... RIP and thanks to all sailors world wide, trying to keep international waters safe for the rest of us, no matter what flag you're sailing under (OK unless it's the North Koreans just about to torpedo us hehe)
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