wow, maybe the military need more money to fix up their stuff. the only cause of this could be lack of funding, right? right?
Yeah a 1.5 trillion dollar budget just isn’t enough /s
military tend to have some of the most creative accounting so no matter how much it is always not enough even though by all metrics it is more than enough
Probably yes. They need more money to fix the ship.
However there’s for sure enough money in the military.
So the question is, where did it all go?
Did you look under the Pentagon?
Why the fuck didn’t that come to a head the first time they failed audits? America failed us a long time ago.
What does he even think he means (Trump on “rebuilding twice”)?
I think rust is like ablative armor
We would call that “load bearing rust”.
I mean, while she absolutely does not look great, this is also the expected condition for a ship that’s been at sea for 200+ days without even a port call. Saltwater is hell on metal, and paint can only do so much for so long.
The cost to maintain these must be insane. A quick uneducated search gives me about half a billion $ per year. Absolutely bonkers.
I have no idea if that includes crew, food, aircraft, armaments, and everything else. If it does, that’s not all that insane, or I should say I’m not surprised at least.
I believe it does
Even if it is expected and has no effect on the carrier’s performance, the optics are pretty bad regardless. Half of its job is projecting power, and a rusty ship doesn’t hit the same. Looks like soviet tech in western representations, working but barely
The ship shouldn’t have been out that long in the first place. Letting it get this bad is the failure being highlighted here.
Maybe don’t start a war that puts your critical shore support structures at risk if you don’t have a plan.
Or just, you know, don’t start a war, period. I have been informed it’s generally frowned upon.
thailand is expected 5000 sailors to spend time with the red district.
Peacefully blownoff steam
Asked my dad about this, because he was in the navy a long time, and it’s normal, and the ship is sitting high, indicating light load, which makes sense because of the deployment circumstances.
Its sitting completely normally. It’ll be ballasted to that draught.
Not the most ragged lookin’ ship I’ve ever seen, but for a representative of the world’s most expensive Navy she’s looking absolutely shabby.
A shining representation of what the US is like right now. A festering pit.
That’s speed rust
That must be what freedom looks like
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Red makes it faster
why send it to battle? they’re disposing it, including the crew
How to ragebait the right: “look at all those torpedo marks at the water line! They must have some thick hulls, bless.” 100s of comments on Tiktok news channels.
Same channel: “that ship is about to experience chlamydia and herpes, better stock up on penicillin and valtrex” (upon landing on a sex capital of the world)…nothing. zero comments.
All non perishable food will be gone from the city by the time they leave.
Also, how many sailors go AWOL?
We don’t get to make fun of the Admiral Kuznetsov ever again
This one’s got a long way to go to being Kuznetsov’d, for one you need to weld off unused areas, then make the engine room look like something from Saw, replace the catapult with a cope slope. Oh, and have it spew clouds of black smoke whenever it’s not moved by tugs (which is like 10%), maybe keep it in port for “modernization” for a few years too
have it spew clouds of black smoke
Really its a wonder Trump hasn’t mandated conventionally powered carriers, only his insane ideas with steam catapults.
Part of me wants to see more ships powered by marine gas* turbines, but with aircraft carriers that’s really improbable :/
They’re powered by marine steam turbines. Is that close enough?
Close, but not nearly cool enough
Of course plenty of smaller aircraft/helicopter carriers powered that way, but I’m thinking Trump would want heavy fuel oil, boilers and steam turbines.
We can do both
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I mean, sure, but…
Is it really that surprising that a passenger aboard an ocean liner would have a better experience than a sailor aboard a warship?
I think they’re comparing it to the last hour or so of the Titanic’s time on the water.
Unless you were third class.
She just needs a lick of paint is all.
Ounce for dust, twice for rust.
Imagine signing up for the navy with the expectation to live on a boat and then cry when that happens. 😂🤣😂 No wonder US military can’t win a war. What a bunch of weaklings
