"Recovery will be long and expensive": the USA decided to write off the burning UDC Bonhomme Richard

The versatile landing ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), which suffered significant damage as a result of a fire that broke out on board in July this year, will be withdrawn from the US Navy and decommissioned. This is stated in a press release distributed by the American fleet.

According to the report, the command of the US Navy decided not to restore the Bonhomme Richard UDC due to "significant damage." The Navy estimates that repairing the ship could take five to seven years and cost over $ 3 billion. Such a recovery in the United States was recognized as too long and expensive.

After careful study (of the issue), the Navy decided to write off the USS Bonhomme Richard (...) due to significant damage received during the fire in July

- said in a press release.

It is noted that the fleet considered several options for restoring the UDC, including its re-equipment for use for alternative purposes, but in the end, the restoration of the ship was considered inappropriate.

Recall that the versatile landing ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) caught fire on July 12, while at the naval base in San Diego. The fire was extinguished only on July 16, the ship burned out almost completely. Initially, it was reported that the cause of the fire could be a violation of safety rules during repair (welding) work, later it was reported that this could be deliberate arson. The investigation into this incident is ongoing.

Comments

[Reserve buildbat]

Intentional violation of safety rules due to laziness

[Alex777]

Bonhomme Richard demobilized.
Its repair costs like a new ship.

[Lionnvrsk]

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Intentional violation of safety rules due to laziness

You do not understand anything! This is such a tactical move - to burn the ship, so that then a little marathon it and sell it cheaply to the skakuas. And they will pan to the fullest, sail under the bridge and up the Don right up to almost Moscow.
Well, what? Why not dream! If there is no peremog, then it must be invented.

[Finches]

Straight balm in the morning from this news!

[Alex777]

Well, after 4 days of fire, it is strange that only now they have decided on the write-off.

[Real Pilot]

Great news!

We are waiting for more fireworks!
Illegal Latino welders (and there are many in San Diego), welcome aboard!
And weld with a blowtorch, please, to be more efficient and faster ...

Well, so that in the morning the welders run out of coconut, and the crocodile is not caught

[Civil]

Burn, burn clearly ... and so he has 7 more sisterships, and the next generation of UDC like "America" ​​is being produced.

[Pereira]

I also think that I did not burn convincingly enough. It should be repeated.

[Alex_You]

I also think that I did not burn convincingly enough. It should be repeated.

What's the point? All the same under the write-off.

[Pereira]

Repeat with the next one.

[noname1117]

He was one of the last ships of the class, would have served for another 15-20 years. Now it is obvious that the modernization of the UDC will be several years behind the plan.

[Alex777]

With your permission, it burned so well that it must be repeated for an encore!

[paul3390]

It is interesting - what will happen if such a vessel is pushed on not by a drunk welder, but, say, Onyx or Granite?

[Alex_You]

What will happen, but such a conflagration will not be a fact, since the fire extinguishing systems will be active, and sailors really do not like it when ships are on fire in the open sea.

[silverwolf88]

Another minus one ... of course amers have a lot of ships ... BUT not infinitely many ...

[Livonetc]

More than enough.
Moreover, to perform different tasks.
There is a UDC with an emphasis on expanding the capabilities of the aviation component, up to aircraft with a short takeoff and landing.
There are docks for landing boats.
We do not have any UDC or aircraft carriers in service.

[Dangerous]

Well, okay, we don't have that. It's time to get used to it. The situation with the fleet is reminiscent of our football. It seems that we are constantly waiting for something from the national team, and in the end we are in the middle. Likewise, the fleet - they promised by 2020 frigates and ash trees with 8 units each, but in the end they did not go beyond the 1/8 finals

[antivirus]

the main thing is not victory - the main thing is participation
and the Strategic Missile Forces - as in hockey - only prize-winning places in the number, quality and accuracy (I'm not talking about the result of destruction-defeat)

[Sling cutter]

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Likewise, the fleet - they promised by 2020 frigates and ash trees with 8 units each, and as a result, they did not pass "beyond the 1/8 finals"

By 2020, they promised 25 million jobs, an average salary of 1400 and apartments for families of 100 meters.
And everything is like in the song "Today I asked the doctor at the round-trip:" Why don't we have a key from the ward? Why is there a hole in the head and in the budget? Why instead of tomorrow today is yesterday?»Let the doctor tell us about oil and gas, Who sold them to us, what" man ", Who took away Gazprom and Lukoil from the people. No answer. And on you, in the muscle of the injection! "

[Alex777]

There is a UDC with an emphasis on expanding the capabilities of the aviation component, up to aircraft with a short takeoff and landing.

Bonhomme Richard was converted into this one for a lot of money and a couple of years.

[Avior]

main combat weapon - welding machine

[V1er]

Intelligence chief agent - hand welder)

[tech3030]

Combat welding machine!

[BISMARCK94]

So you can still wait and you look the entire us fleet will go to the bottom by itself)

[donavi49]

No. They will replace all this with a plus. Two Americas have already been built.

Bougainville is under construction.
In May 2020, construction began on the LHA-9 at Huntington. While unnamed.

But +4 ships, 2 of them in the version of a light aircraft carrier, 2 in the form of full-fledged UDC of the new generation will definitely be.

[BISMARCK94]

it was sarcasm) and so the pace and volume of construction of the yusei fleet can only be envied

[Avior]

he is over 20 years old, but for Wosp he is not quite old, they have not yet been written off.
Could have served more, the older one would have been written off first. and so will hold.

[donavi49]

Well it is more like Yes. However, the same Elk that was burned in order to be in time for the American football match (or baseball) - was stronger in terms of money and damage to the fleet.

[Avior]

in principle, sooner or later the Wasps will be written off, the oldest of them is 9 years older than the burned one, it will simply be held in the navy until America is built, more money will be spent on repairs.

[Evil 55]

-1 in favor of Russia and China ...

[Graz]

minus one, keep it up!

[Graz]

well, not the last

[antivirus]

to sell our seafarers for a light aircraft carrier - what a joy it would be!
I don’t mind any money, if only you feel good.

that it could have been deliberate arson. The investigation into this incident is ongoing.

- ISIS is back

[zwlad]

We must already reward something tovarischa Mexican for the destruction of an enemy combat unit!

[Pavel57]

The main thing is not our UDC.

[Laksamana besar]

I thought so, the fire was not sickly.

[Incvizitor]

How expensive is that? You have a lot of unfinished slaves, order them unfastened for everything.