The Cheapest to Most Expensive US Navy Warship to Operate

Today we are talking about money, a lot of money, each year the US Navy spends around $60 billion operating and supporting its fleet of just under 300 ships, that seems like a lot about right, but to put things in perspective, Every year Americans spend 70 billion dollars on lottery tickets, 80 billion dollars on cigarettes and around one hundred billion dollars on beer, but beer is justified. In this video we will discover how much it really costs to

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each type of ship in the US Navy, starting from the smallest to the

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Indirect and overhead costs Direct costs include things like crew wages, fuel supplies, and repair and maintenance Indirect costs include expenses of various support units that are necessary for combat units to fight effectively Think about ship maintenance yards naval bases, etc. Overhead costs include administrative units that help recruit, train and equip each ship, medical expenses and other types of bureaucracy. Also note that crew size, that is, the number of people on board a ship, is always less than the total number of personnel assigned to that ship. This could be because some ships have a dual crew system, but also most of the personnel play an administrative or support role, although zomwall destroyers have a crew of 180, the total number of personnel dedicated to each ship is 500. , so in the case of zomwalt that annual operating cost of 100 million dollars is composed of direct, indirect and general costs of 40, 20 and 40 million dollars per ship respectively, now 100 million dollars is a lot of money, but Not if you are Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man who spent $100 million on his daughter's wedding.

The desserts must have been delicious. Next in line are the Liberty-class LCS 1 and Independence-class littoral combat ships. The littoral combat ship's mission ranges from patrolling coastal areas to port visits and combating piracy. Each littoral combat ship has a total annual operating cost of $100 million. as is Zomwalt, but since littoral combat ships are much smaller than Zomwalt destroyers, we consider them more expensive to operate compared to Zumwalt. The total number of personnel per ship is 430. As of 2021, there are 21 full ships of both classes, which means it costs. 2.1 billion dollars to operate the coastal fleet each year. Estimates for construction costs for both classes of LC range between $350 million and $500 million.

However, the CBO estimates that the average cost to build and fully equip an LC-class ship is approximately $1.3 billion, but how much is it? $1.3 billion is enough money to buy every American a nice cup of coffee with 122 VLS cells and a powerful Aegis combat system. The guided missile cruiser Tychenderoga is a multi-role ship capable of supporting aircraft carrier battle groups or amphibious forces, as well as operating independently. The average cost to build the Taikan Deroga cruise ship was $2.4 billion. The Ticanderoga cruisers were built in the 1980s and have a total annual operating cost of $110 million per ship, which is actually not that bad for the second most expensive surface combatant ever built for the US. .

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early bird destroyers have an operational cost annual $140 million per ship arleigh burke The destroyers' mission ranges from patrolling shipping lanes and providing an overseas presence to supporting other surface ships, aircraft carriers and submarines.

If we divide the total number of personnel assigned to the 68 Arleigh Burke destroyers, we end up with 720 personnel per ship. By the way, did you know? In 2016, the United States gave Iran an early destroyer. Maybe not exactly, but the United States made a cash payment of $1.7 billion due to the effectiveness of US and international sanctions against Iran, which is equivalent to the costs of building an Arleigh Burke. Attack submarine destroyers like the Los Angeles Sea Wolf and Virginia have an annual operating cost of $140 million per ship. Its mission is to destroy submarines and surface ships with torpedoes and missiles, as well as attack targets on land.

In total, the US Navy has 50 nuclear-powered attack submarines with an average assigned personnel of 390 people per ship. The cost of building the latest Virginia-class submarine was $2.8 billion, which is equivalent to the cost of postponing the tokyo 2020 olympic games due to pandemic on the 14th Ohio class ballistic missile submarines carry about half of the active US strategic thermonuclear warheads. Each submarine carries 24 Trident missiles with up to 8 nuclear warheads each. The U.S. Navy also operates four Ohio guided cruise missile submarines with an average of 660 military personnel assigned. The annual operating cost of each submarine is $170 million. The main function of these 14 ballistic missile submarines is nuclear deterrence, which is one of the three prongs of the United States nuclear triad, so every year the United States spends 2.4 billion dollars to operate these submarines to make us safe. that we will avoid nuclear war and that $2.4 billion is equal to the amount of taxes the IRS failed to collect from the wealthiest U.S. taxpayers for fiscal year 2020.

Amphibious assault ships like the Wasp or The San Antonio are designed to carry out operations involving the transfer of troops and equipment from sea to hostile land, these ships generally operate in an amphibious ready group consisting of an amphibious assault ship, an amphibious transport port ship and a landing ship. A ready amphibious group can transport one marine expeditionary unit on average. each amphibious assault ship has 1,450 personnel associated with it. Please note that this number does not include the marine expeditionary unit aboard the ships, which consists of 2,200 personnel and 30 aircraft. The U.S. Navy operates about 30 amphibious ships, which is enough to support 10 amphibious readiness groups.

The US Marine Corps only maintains seven Marine Expeditionary Units due to data limitations. CBO only provides an average annual operating cost for all classes of amphibious ships, which is $270 million per ship and that's what Lebron James made in playing salary for the first 16 years. of his career, but don't worry, he earned more than double that in endorsements. The US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers, as one of the carriers is being overhauled at any given time and only a few are being deployed at any given time. The US Navy only has nine air wings. Each aircraft carrier has an average number of 6,590 military personnel.

The average annual operating cost of a super aircraft carrier is $1.18 billion. An aircraft carrier air wing generally consists of 4,860 people with an annual operating cost of $910 million per unit, so considering an aircraft carrier that includes the air wing, its annual operating cost is $2.1 billion, which is equivalent about a single launch of NASA's new space launch system, which is estimated to cost $2 billion per launch, excluding research and development, of course, but from an aircraft carrier. alone has a limited ability to defend itself depends on other ship classes for defense against missiles aircraft and submarines an aircraft carrier strike group usually consists of at least one cruiser, at least two destroyers, and sometimes a supply ship or a submarine, depending on the exact composition of an aircraft carrier strike group, its operating cost ranges from 6 to 8 million dollars per day in total, the annual cost of operating 11 aircraft carriers and 9 air wings is around 21 thousand million dollars and yes, 21 billion dollars is a lot of money, but I think we all know a divorce settlement that costs much more than that.