Here's Why The U.S. Navy Can't Seem To Build Guided-missile cruiser

In today's episode we'll look at the reason why the US Navy can't

seem

to

build

cruiser

s. Modern

cruiser

s are generally known to be the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships that can typically perform multiple roles. The cruiser's role varied by ship and

navy

, often including air defense and coastal bombardment during the Cold War. Soviet naval cruisers were heavily armed with anti-ship

missile

s designed to sink NATO carrier task forces through saturation attacks. Also, as of 2020, only two countries. Operating ships formerly classified as cruisers are the United States and Russia and in both cases the ships are primarily armed with

guided

missile

s.

Few cruisers are still operational in the world's navies and those remain in service today, including the Greek armored cruiser Georgios. Avrov, which is from the Hellenic

navy

, then the Russian navy consists of one Kirov class

guided

missile cruiser, three Slava class, also the Russian cruiser Aurora, which was ceremonially recommissioned as a flagship of the Russian navy due to its historical importance, finally, the United States Navy, which consists of 22 Ticonderoga. class guided missile cruisers and a few others, to name a few, it is recently known that the Chinese People's Liberation Army navy launched eight new zero five five type cruisers in about three years starting from mid-2017, however, the The US Navy, on the other hand, has not. launched a cruise since 1992.

Over the decades, several attempts by Americans to maintain a new cruise program have failed over the years, so why did the US Navy, like the most powerful maritime force in the world, can't

build

cruisers? The answer, of course, is only available through this channel, so keep watching the video. The Navy has struggled for nearly two decades to figure out what type of platforms should replace the guided-missile cruiser as the air defense command ship for the carrier strike group, and several efforts have been canceled or postponed along the way. Additionally, the navy modernized 10 cruisers starting in the 2000s to extend their service lives and give them the newest combat capabilities.

A second cruise ship modernization program that began in 2015 aims to do the same for seven more. For more updates, we can see the status of the navy cruisers. Through the figure below, now the cruise ships in that first group are showing their age becoming more expensive and difficult to maintain and less reliable to operate as their material condition deteriorates. Those in the second group, five of which are currently in the cruiser modernization program, are also experiencing problems. As they require more maintenance work than the Navy anticipated, raising questions about whether the Navy should continue operating them or decommission them due to their deteriorating condition, the Navy is debating whether to maintain them for a larger fleet or discontinue them in an environment budgetary in which the military services increasingly look to divest to invest in or get rid of legacy equipment to free up money for new equipment destined for future high-end fighting;

The cruiser fleet may not receive much support in the next budget cycle, in addition to last year. Vice Adm. Bill Galinnis, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, said five cruisers are currently in the modernization program and that three of those that are more advanced have not gone well because the cruise ship's recent upgrades, the Mobile Bay and Bunker Hill cruisers reached the end of their 35-year lifespan in 2020 and will be decommissioned despite the cruiser's age, some analysts They are hesitant to see them retired, particularly since t

here

is no immediate replacement for the 567-foot ship with 122 vertical missile launch tubes and two 5-inch cannons to The Navy is reportedly putting its 11 newest cruisers into maintenance to modernize them. and extend its useful life until the end of the 2030s;

However, according to a decommissioning schedule published by Defense News, the 11 oldest cruisers in the fleet will be retired by the end of 2026. The problem appears from a strategic point of view. The modernization program is known to appear to generate more work than initially planned, especially when the program began in the latest modernization availability, according to Bill Galinnis, the commander of naval sea systems, commanding the three ships. now gettysburg vicksburg and cowpens are in that modernization readiness and I will tell you they are struggling in the production phase right now. Furthermore, other factors that appear to be challenges are the poor material condition of the ships and the inability of the workforce to do their repair and reactivation work also in terms of performance, the maintenance yards do not have that expertise available as the program of cruiser modification is so lengthy with a three-part repair and modernization process that the crews currently assigned to the cruisers have never actually touched the ship's systems before the mechanical and electrical systems were down for five years and have been more difficult than expected to put them back into operation after modernization availability.

According to Golinis, t

here

is a fairly proven process in the sequence of how we reactivate these systems. that the Navy and its contractors are going through now, but the repair yards do not have the in-house expertise they need to successfully execute that work and we do not have the expertise to reactivate the ships, another factor that the US Navy. suspends development of the cruiser because it has officially begun developing a new class of guided missile destroyer, the provisional name ddg x will replace the older ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers. The Navy actually operated 22 Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers between 1980 and 1991 and is expected to have replaced them.

However, at this point the lack of funding over the past 20 years, when ground wars dominated, has prevented the development of a replacement. This new replacement ship will be the backbone of the Navy's fleet until the mid-21st century, protecting aircraft carriers and high-end ships while providing offensive firepower of its own according to the defense news report, if Everything is on track, the first ship should enter naval service around 2032. The point is that the navy proposes to continue improving and extending the service life of the destroyers and their inventory to cover their defense against ballistic missiles. which may affect the navy's ability to use the ship in multiple roles because she has to stay in a certain location to ensure that she can have a good ballistic missile shot.

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