Keep in mind too that a lot of ships that got put in the boneyard or storage yard may not have been put there in V1 where the Cold War never ended. One reason for the big draw down was the Cold War ending.
Example
USS Salem
The ship was surveyed in 1981 for possible reactivation as part of the 600 ship navy project, and while the inspection results showed she was in excellent condition, funding to reactivate Salem and her sister Des Moines could not be secured from Congress.
Given the Cold War not ending there is every chance she got reactivated prior to the Twilight War (both were reactivated for sure at the very least during the war) and Newport News might not have been scrapped in 1993
Or for that matter the last light cruiser the USS Oklahoma City that was expended as a target in 1999 but would have definitely been back in the Navy if possible with the Twilight War, especially after the losses the USN took
Last edited by Olefin; 05-12-2021 at 01:36 PM.
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