Recommissioned US Navy ships

[James1978]

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.

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.