Austal USA at SNA 2023: Steel ships, Coast Guard OPC and Expeditionary Medical Ship EMS
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Austal USA booth at SNA 2023. Washington DC-based naval warfare commentator Chris Cavas interviews Austal USA's Larry Ryder on the latest programs of the company including its transition to steel ships production:
US Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter OPC
Navajo-class Towing and Salvage ships T-ATS
AFDM dry dock
Expeditionary Medical Ship EMS
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The small medical ships make a lot of sense, quick an agile they can be forward based and respond to a crisis a lot quicker than the current large hospital ships can
I doubt those have the range to be effective. Also having a lot of little ships will cost more than having a few larger ships.
The USA is not going to do many large amphibious landing at the same time, because it requires way too much specialty equipment to do just one at a time.
Aluminum, salt water, and steel also like to create really bad corrosion that takes way too much maintenance.
@@willw8011I can see having one large hospital ship and three or four maybe five small hospital ships. They are cheap and effective.
@@seanpruitt6801 Hospitals and hospital ships need to be large due to all of the specialty equipment. The current 2 hospital ships were modified from oil tanker designs. The ship builder just added some bulkheads and elevators. These ships are full service hospitals.
The little aluminum beer cans for hospital ships are modified from the small cargo/ vehicle transports designed to being equipment right to the shoreline. These will not be large enough to be hospital ships. Ships to evacuate wounded to a hospital ship... maybe, but not hospital ships.
BTW, USN retired T-ESD-1 and 2 only after 10 years. Those could be converted to hospital ships or new ships of the same size built as hospital ships.
The last 20 years of USN's build strategy and all of their decisions make no sense.
@@willw8011 the montford point is not being retired. It was rejected by congress. I can see the point if having fast hospital ships with large hospital ships as well. But I think we should be more concerned with putting more destroyers in the water instead of building hospital ships and extend the life of comfort and mercy.
Makes no sense to me. They are losers or they wouldn't need a medical ship, let the weak perish so only the Strong are Left, Such as I.
The hospital ship is a great use case for large Aluminum catamarns. Should be more faster and more stable than a monohull. Good choice.
Visited the facility today. I applied for project manager position. Hire me. 💙💙
Had Independence were only made the usual 46kph max, their hulls might not have cracked. Or say 65kph reinforced with Kevlar to ensure crack resistant. Or faster but shorter such as their MRV-80
Nice to see the CG getting new ships. But sad to see the 210's (and 270s') be replaced. I served on the Diligence hull 616 (when in Key West) and Resolute (St Pete) hull 620. For what the 210's did, these replacements are overkill, but for the 270's, just a little over but a whole lotta ship over all. Glad to see they did a rebid. But I'm sure having an X-Comdt onboard had NOTHING to do with it. 😇
Great, now let's build some icebreakers.
The Coast Guard's new OPC should have included stern recovery for the small boats.
Love Austal designs of ships…. But the whole aluminium thing has always bugged me.
I hate Australs ships, because of the whole aluminium thing. The LCS ships are cracking because of it and the new Australian OPV's they were making out of it have issues because of poor coal from china apparently. No idea why, when china buys better quality coal from us, and we also have a massive steel industry.
@@dan7564 aluminium and ships have always had issues. Same as aluminium and tanks.
If memory serves, the Australian OPV’s were made from aluminium sourced from Chinese mills and was amazingly found to be below standard and unusable. Down goes the delivery schedule and all the flow on delays to subsequent planned works. It really seems an obvious and glaring red flag with screaming sirens type proposition to be sourcing supposedly high grade aluminium (or steel or whatever) for military use from a potentially, likely even, hostile nation. Beggars belief tbh. At what stage in the last 2-3 decades has the CCP demonstrated anything but duplicity and two facedness re it’s military expansionism and intention of regional and eventually world dominance as replacement to the U.S.A? What an easy 5:45 gift to give them this contract.
@@YaMumsSpecialFriend that’s a fact. The two steel mills by me are closed now but what I found out is that most US coal and steel went to China while Chinese steel and coal got shipped cheaply to America
Eisenhower warned us about this. Austal hasn't delivered a good product and continues to win contracts.
My thoughts exactly. They are failing upward.
former Austal USA President Craig Perciavalle, current director of financial analysis Joseph Runkel and former director of the firm’s Littoral Combat Ships program, William Adams, sought to artificially reduce cost estimates for Navy shipbuilding projects by tens of millions of dollars
I hope you working folks got some of that filthy lucre
I work for Austal and we are constantly changing presidents due to them messing with the money
Austal must have one heck of a lobbying group or "something else" to get away with the disaster that is LCS and then now awarded contract for steel construction, something they don't have experience with. Amazing how an Australian company can be given so much and have gotten away with so much.
former Austal USA President Craig Perciavalle, current director of financial analysis Joseph Runkel and former director of the firm’s Littoral Combat Ships program, William Adams, sought to artificially reduce cost estimates for Navy shipbuilding projects by tens of millions of dollars.
Oh well, it's just the military and tax munny. Trump voters don't enlist or pay taxes, so it's okay
We need ice breaking coast guard boats in Canada... Davie, Levis...
The US Government building more of the Independence class LCS, even though those are cracking and need way too much maintenance.
The US Congress will never admit that they should have never bought the 2 LCS class ships, which cannot do anything other than patrol the water with their little pop-guns.
There needs to be an investigation in both of those programs, because there was some corruption somewhere or lots of people hold position way above their merit.
It is called everything politicians want to direct money into their constituents (lobbyist and donors) at the expense of the American people. Happened to M1 tanks, Army said we have enough, Congress forced them to accept more tanks and these went into straight into storage.
@A Perpetual Guardsman with a flashlight
Yes, the US Government/ Navy can... and the US Government/ Navy can also force the companies to pay for the damages due to their fraudulent claims of testing the equipment. The equipment is defective and the companies lied about it, so IMO the US Navy should make an example of those companies. The US Navy could bankrupt those companies and throw the leaders in prison for fraud.
2:50 Gosh.....bring it up to ramming speed.
Aluminum, again? Haven’t we learned anything. Does anyone remember the Belknap vs Kennedy collision? The Falklands? The recent cracks on the LCS? More wasted money!
I want to work here. Hire me. Thx
They are always hiring
What kind of coast guard we Don't have water cannon
Are you referring to the gun mount on the front that looks like a 5inch?
57mm, not a five-inch@@andrewmackay8811
中国は、病院船も攻撃しそうだから個艦防衛ミサイル位積んだ方が良さげです‼️笑🤣
Nice designs. Who will actually build them? It takes highly skilled workers to build these ships. Will they be forced off the job en masse when the next inevitable virus panic comes?
No worries Trump will have Russia build our ships.
No one in the defense contracting industry stopped working. We worked through the pandemic to continue building ships and continued producing for the federal government.