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Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer
I've thought a lot about what a (probably non-canon) 2010ish US Navy would look like in the T2k setting; there's a lot of "display" or museum ships that are going to get pressed back into service for coastal security; it'll be a long time before the US can contemplate global power projection again, so I think about stuff like the USS Intrepid, the USS Alabama, other ships like that which they might attempt to get running again. Of course I have no idea what is involved; the very attempt might be laughably hard to the point that it would be easier to build new ships from scratch than to try to re-equip and re-float vessels like that.
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Originally Posted by James1978
My guess is that they are focused on keeping whatever survived the Twilight War and made it home running for as long as they can. Beyond that, getting some shipyards back into production and building coastal patrol ships for anti-piracy and fisheries protection seems like about all the USN will be up for. IOW, building small Coast Guard cutters, but painted haze gray instead of white.
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One thing that I noticed was missed in every discussion of what was hit and not hit regarding US shipbuilding (And refurbishment for that matter) capability is Bath Iron Works. Just about every Destroyer in US Navy Service, from the Spruance, the Tico's, and the Burke's was all built in this one shipyard tucked away on the Maine Coast. They have dry building slips for three 800' vessels (one of which is much longer than the others), and three more older fashioned wet slipways about the right size for Figs and possibly three more Burke's. If you go to Googlemaps, and look it up, you'll see one on a slip, one had just left the floating dry dock to be fitted out, and they are laying out plates for three more on the old fashioned slipways.