![]() ![]() Navy reversed itself, beginning the formal process of cancelling the Seawolf class submarine’s big 2021 maintenance period,” according to Craig Hooper of Forbes. ![]() “USS Connecticut was expected in early 2020 to enter Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for a year-long ‘Drydocking Selected Restricted Availability,’ or DSRA, in August 2021. Since that report, other maintenance issues have crept up. This made them the priciest vessels for the Navy to work on per day compared with Los Angeles-class or Virginia-class submarines, the GAO found. The Kitsap Sun also said the Seawolf subs had an estimated daily cost of more than $205,000 to operate. Altogether, they were stopped for almost 80-days as they waited to enter dry dock, according to the Kitsap Sun, a Bremerton, Washington publication that keeps track of submarines at Puget Sound. The GAO found that between 20, the three Seawolf-class subs were delayed more than 1,600 days before they completed maintenance periods that were already behind schedule. GAO Report Finds Maintenance Periods Were Behind Schedule Government Accountability Office investigation that studied the Seawolf-class and its maintenance issues as far back as 2017. These setbacks have been going on for years and the navy even succumbed to a U.S. Not only has the Seawolf-class taken some hard knocks, but the submarines have also required extensive and lengthy maintenance schedules that add to their operating costs. Why are there so few Seawolf-Class submarines: In Mother Nature, seawolf is another name for the Atlantic Wolffish (Anarhichas lupus), a rather gruesome-looking sea creature that survives in waters with temperatures as low -1 to 11C. ![]() An artist’s concept of the nuclear-powered submarine SEAWOLF (SSN-21). ![]()
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