General Dynamics NASSCO has received 1.7 billion dollars to build two additional John Lewis class fleet oilers for the US Navy, the company stated.
The award covers the construction of T AO 215 and T AO 216 and forms part of an ongoing multi-ship programme that could total eight vessels.
According to the organisation, the ships belong to the U.S. Navy’s replenishment oiler series designed to refuel surface combatants at sea. The class features a full load displacement of nearly 50,000 tons, capacity for 162,000 barrels of fuel, dry cargo space and aviation facilities. The vessels are 742 feet long and are built to sustain speeds of around 20 knots.
NASSCO president Dave Carver said “the T AO program holds significant importance to the men and women of NASSCO and is one we take great pride in it’s the longest running Navy production series in NASSCO history.” He added that the new funding will stabilise the workforce by maintaining a strong order backlog.
The company noted that the Navy originally ordered six John Lewis class ships in 2016, later expanding the programme several times. Four vessels have already been delivered and five more are under construction at NASSCO’s San Diego yard.
General Dynamics describes NASSCO as a major supplier of naval and commercial shipbuilding and repair services across several US locations.
Well on the way to Net Zero then !
They are very economical as they carry a 300,000 tons of jet fuel.
And that’s economical in itself given the 50 thousands ton full load !!!!
The Tide Class are much more pleasant on the eyes.
A year late with wiring problems, costing 100 million pounds more due to currency fluctuation, 700 million pounds with 550 million pounds net, with no tax clawback meaning they cost around 900 million pounds, or rather the UK could have built them for 900 odd millions pounds and it would make economic sense to do them here and money stays here, but So many bs excuses used when in fact someone said, we got away with it. British people ripped off again due to economically illiterate public sector workers, or and this being done on purpose. But they look nicer. Hmn…
It would have cost far more to build at home. And no one at the time bid for it in the UK
Yes. That rubbish has been put about. Those ships cost nearly one billion pounds to build without tax. Compared to the Forts, they cost more net OK! To be cheaper those ships needed to be built for around 150 million quid. Learn, then learn, then learn, then Learn!! Why did UK companies not directly bid? Learn!
1 Billion for 4 ships is a bargain, it’s costing us nearly 2 Billion to build the 3 new Solids ships, and they’re not even very good designs
1.6 billion for three more complex ships than the Tide tankers. Also, if the ships were fully built here with UK materials etc, we would be receiving a very large amount of tax clawback.
More complex my ass, they’re budget designs thanks to cost cuttings, no automated handling system, no 2nd RAS rig to connect with carriers, and no HRAS.
And we’re building half of them in Spain, because we cannot build them in the UK
More complex than the tankers. The delay by decades has caused this. It never needed to happen. I think the building of those carriers proved we can build them. We still have UK governments that don’t get manufacturing.
The carriers were vastly over budget and had their own issues, and in the end we got a pretty slimily equipped design
Incorrect. The financial crisis for some reason, made the politicians give this crazily bad decision to delay these ships by a long period of time. This caused cost to go up by around 1.6 to 1.7 billion, so real cost is about 4.5+ billion for both ships. Caused by politicians not by shipbuilders. Their handling systems are pretty advanced. Some armour was deleted. Changes from mid sized carried back to a 80,000 ton super carrier cost money and delay too. Cost per ton, they are the cheapest carriers around, before and after the politically imposed delay. It didn’t take long to get PoW structurally comp!ete either.
Just said the Tide are better looking ships. Also no UK yard bid for the project.
Yes, it was a fair enough comment on the looks, but it was well known after the cancelling the UK industry/MoD alliance by I think it was Andrew Tyler, that none UK bids would be more welcome. UK yards were not invited to the party. Apart from Cammell Laird with Fincants… Someone allegedly said, I think we got away with it.
Where ships are built is a political choice.
It is our choice, it is our money. Do you understand that? Politicians are bad players, they do not serve the Brittanic people and you need to wake up to this!
The ‘people’ lose the choice post-election. Do you understand how this all works?
Yes. Stupidity knows no bounds. But know one voted for building ships abroad did they, along with uncontrolled legal and illegal things, did they!!! Wake up!!!
Daft reply from me, I do apologise. But what I am getting at, is that we seem to be wasting money, huge amounts of money on many things like welfare, systems that do not work and peop!e choosing to not work.
But are noisy slow and don’t carry enough cargo!!
And these ships are what exactly? Quiet? Carry cargo? No, they’re tankers
You have all been owned. UK shipyards were well aware they were not welcome, years before that and globalists have done you ok! There was a Cammell Laird Fincanteri bid which would be better and Barrow KOFAC had a great plan. We spunk 10s of billions for nothing, yet we argue over this, real things that protect Britain, and spunk billions in undermining us. The talk of a small amount of money is ridiculous. But building abroad is mad and saying no one in the UK bid for it should say to yourself, why! Don’t get owned by this shite treasonous state! The state is not your friend,ok!
Another stupid comment. I do apologise again. It’s not good watching bad frustrating news on the tv and commenting. I try to be constructive but that is just a rant. Tax claw back is very important though and the government need to realise this. All tax payer funded ships should be built in the UK.
So no selling of the the two “Wave” oilers then. They might still be useful to have as backup.
We’re still ditching the waves
It is our choice, it is our money. Do you understand that? Politicians are bad players, they do not serve the Brittanic people and you need to wake up to this! We know over a few hundred million here and there, yet, don’t notice the few hundred billions that are wasted or given to mates there. We could have a navy three times bigger than this, Get we speak about toss like this!