2 Aegis class DDG and CG deemed'' unfit''for combat
The crews and the Captains seemed just dunt care higher
command came to inspect!!
Why did it happen?
read the reports ...
http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2008/04/navy_insurv_042008w/
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Apr 24, 2008
MCSN Mark Patterson II / Navy
The Hawaii-based cruiser Chosin.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/ddg-55.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/cg-65.htm
Here are highlights from the Board of Inspection and Survey
reports on the cruiser Chosin and destroyer Stout.
Last deployment: April-September 2007
* AN/SPS-49 and AN/SPY-1B radars severely degraded by multiple
issues.
* 26 percent of the vertical launch system cells had hatch
timing problems and were operationally unusable.
* Two of three fire control directors were 19 years old and
beyond their 15-year depot overhaul requirement.
* Aviation facility had enough discrepancies to preclude safe
flight operations. Aviation demonstration scored an UNSAT .58.
* Ship could not properly connect shore electrical power.
* Pilot’s ladder was unsafe for use and too short.
* General ship’s lighting was inadequate; “upgrade of lighting
fixtures would enhance the ability of personnel to operate and
maintain the ship’s systems.”
* Secondary rescue boat could not be secured for sea.
* Nine Departure From Spec listings were in excess of 180 days
without being repaired; one item — shaft plastic coating — dated
from April 2001.
* All 25 Mk 1 life preservers and all 29 Kapok life preservers
failed visual inspection.
* 46 of 51 Kevlar lifelines failed visual inspection.
* 95 percent of the external ladders were rigged with the wrong
securing pins or had missing handrail safety pins.
* Communications demonstration scored an UNSAT .57, as did the
Environmental Protection demonstration.
Last deployment: July-December 2007
* Aegis AN/SPY-1D power output was reduced by about 75
percent.
* Two of three Mk 99 missile illuminators were inoperable.
* Aft vertical launch system magazine unusable due to fuel tank
leakage.
* Close-In Weapon System was inoperable.
* Neither of two triple torpedo tube mounts could be quickly
trained to firing position.
* The Mk 45 5-inch gun couldn’t fire due to corrosion in the gun
cradle.
* Search-and-rescue swimmer gear would not permit operations in
water colder than 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
* An intermittent problem with the Mk 39 Gyro Data Converter,
causing unreliable data to be fed to the Aegis weapon control
system and gun fire control system, had been reported in March 2006
but still not repaired.
* Food service was degraded: The ship’s walk-in freezer and nine
of 13 reach-in reefers had problems; neither single tank dishwasher
worked, nor did all three waste disposal units. Only one of four
steam kettles was operating.
* 26 of 77 watertight closures inspected were not
watertight.
* The ship scored an UNSAT .51 for the anti-air warfare
demonstration.
* Only three gas turbines were in operation, precluding the
ability to conduct a full-power demonstration.
* The flight deck status lighting system was inoperable due to
corrosion.
* The deck demonstration received a .50 score, UNSAT.
* The aviation demonstration received a score of .59, UNSAT.
(NEWS)
Most of the missiles couldn’t be fired, and neither could any of
the big guns. The Aegis radars key to the ships’ fighting abilities
didn’t work right.
The flight decks were inoperable.
Most of the lifesaving gear failed inspection.
Corrosion was rampant, and lube oil leaked all over.
The verdict: “unfit for sustained combat operations.”
Those results turned up by an inspection by the Navy’s Board of
Inspection and Survey — commonly known as an InSurv — would be bad
enough if they came from one warship.
But they came from two. In different fleets, in different
oceans. Within a week of each other. And each ship represents the
Navy’s most sophisticated front-line surface combatants.....
