New Jersey had been refitted for the Korean War as well as for Vietnam, by the 1960s, she had only her 16-inch/5-inch batteries, her light aa had been stripped. She also had a fairly extensive rebuild of her electronics suite for Vietnam. Her Regan-era rebuild was to emplace Tomahawk/Harpoon and CIWS and update her electronics. She had been modified to butn NDF back in the 1960s. The primary drive for that portion was to insure that the fleet only had to transport one type of fuel for the ships. According to a couple of Navy types in my office, the conversion from bunker to NDF involves burner plates and injectors, the supposed figure for the New Jerey refit was roughly 250,000 dollars. I'm checking the Congressional Records from that time to see if there is a detailed breakdown of the budget.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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