Quote:
Originally Posted by chico20854
I was able to get to my deep file storage last night and found some of those documents you mentioned above. They are not pristine since I jotted notes on them back in the day! It looks like they only put out a five-year plan, so what the mid-late 90s would have looked like in a continued Cold War will need more digging.
The FY 88-92 shipbuilding plan is here.
The FY 87 aircraft procurement plan is here.
A list from the early-mid 90s of ships that the Navy still had but had identified for disposal is here. A lot of interesting ships on there that you wouldn't be aware of otherwise!
|
it shows just how many ships could have been brought back from the boneyard for sure - including a decent amount of subs and DDG's - and didnt know there were some old Fletchers and Gearings in the US inventory
And you can see some of the ships in the disposal list that the USN took out of mothballs that show up in the East Africa Sourcebook
The Spiegel Grove and the Richard S. Edwards were both brought out of the graveyard to serve again as was the Preble.