US Navy getting serious about naval build up.
Posted: 30 Sep 2018 10:38
The US Navy is obviously not letting the grass grow under its feet, with a multi-year deal to two seperate shipyards for 10 Burke class destroyers.
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is awarded a $3,904,735,559 fixed-price-incentive, firm target multiyear contract for construction of four DDG 51 class ships, one each in fiscal 2019 through 2022.
This contract includes options for engineering change proposals, design budgeting requirements, and post-delivery availabilities on the awarded firm multiyear ships, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $4,030,194,579.
This contract also includes options for construction of additional DDG 51 class ships.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded a $5,104,668,778 fixed-price-incentive, firm target multiyear contract for construction of six DDG 51 class ships, two in fiscal 2018 and one each in fiscal 2019 through 2022.
This contract includes options for engineering change proposals, design budgeting requirements, and post-delivery availabilities on the awarded firm multiyear ships, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $5,253,076,779.
This contract includes options for construction of additional DDG 51 class ships.
In summary, ten Arleigh Burke class destroyers for US$10,28 billion, delivered over four years.
As a personal aside, this is why we should never have built the F100 here. For the price of three Hobart class frigates, we could have had six Burkes, with vastly more capability, delivered faster and with less issues. For the price of the Hunter class frigates we could have a further dozen Burkes, standardising on a single class of far more capable vessels delivered far faster.
The idea that we have to build here to maintain capability is a crock, we maintained and upgraded the DDGs and FFGs and the Oberons without building them here. Also I note that the RAAF is not being asked to buy Australian built F35s, C17s, Poseidons, KC-30s, Wedgetails, Tritons or Super Hornets, but seems to deliver all the capability required.
Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is awarded a $3,904,735,559 fixed-price-incentive, firm target multiyear contract for construction of four DDG 51 class ships, one each in fiscal 2019 through 2022.
This contract includes options for engineering change proposals, design budgeting requirements, and post-delivery availabilities on the awarded firm multiyear ships, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $4,030,194,579.
This contract also includes options for construction of additional DDG 51 class ships.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi, is awarded a $5,104,668,778 fixed-price-incentive, firm target multiyear contract for construction of six DDG 51 class ships, two in fiscal 2018 and one each in fiscal 2019 through 2022.
This contract includes options for engineering change proposals, design budgeting requirements, and post-delivery availabilities on the awarded firm multiyear ships, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $5,253,076,779.
This contract includes options for construction of additional DDG 51 class ships.
In summary, ten Arleigh Burke class destroyers for US$10,28 billion, delivered over four years.
As a personal aside, this is why we should never have built the F100 here. For the price of three Hobart class frigates, we could have had six Burkes, with vastly more capability, delivered faster and with less issues. For the price of the Hunter class frigates we could have a further dozen Burkes, standardising on a single class of far more capable vessels delivered far faster.
The idea that we have to build here to maintain capability is a crock, we maintained and upgraded the DDGs and FFGs and the Oberons without building them here. Also I note that the RAAF is not being asked to buy Australian built F35s, C17s, Poseidons, KC-30s, Wedgetails, Tritons or Super Hornets, but seems to deliver all the capability required.