수상전투함 알레이버크급 플라이트I 12척의 수명을 연장할 미해군

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미해군이 취역한 지 30년이 넘은 알레이버크급 구축함 플라이트I 12척을 1년에서 5년 가량 더 운영할 수 있게 수명을 연장할 계획이네요. 

3년 연장: USS Barry (DDG-52) USS The Sullivans (DDG-68)

5년 연장: USS Gonzalez (DDG-66), USS Cole (DDG-67), USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60), USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54), USS Laboon (DDG-58), USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) and USS Stout (DDG-55)

1년 연장: USS Carney (DDG-64) and USS Stethem (DDG-63)

수명연장에 드는 비용은 2026 회계년도에 13억 달러, 15년 동안 60억 달러이고 척당 1억 3,960만 달러라고 합니다. 

2023년 8월 DDG-69 USS Milius, DDG-57 USS Mitcher를 4년, DDG-65 USS Benfold, DDG-61 USS Ramage를 5년간 수명연장하기로 결정한 적이 있었네요. 

2017년 일본 해안에서 컨테이너선과 충돌사고를 일으켜 7명의 승조원이 사망했던 DDG-62 USS Fitzgerald는 수명연장 대상에서 제외됐습니다. 

Navy Extending Service Lives of 12 Flight I Arleigh Burke Destroyers - USNI News

Navy Extending Service Lives of 12 Flight I Arleigh Burke Destroyers

Mallory Shelbourne

October 31, 2024 2:22 PM

Guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60) patrols the Persian Gulf on March 25, 2020. US Army Photo

Twelve Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers will remain in the fleet past their initial service lives, the Navy announced on Thursday.

The life extensions for the Flight I destroyers range from one to five years, depending on the ship, according to a list of the chosen destroyers reviewed by USNI News.

“The decision, based upon a hull-by-hull eval‎uation of ship material condition, combat capability, technical feasibility and lifecycle maintenance requirements, will result in an additional 48 ship-years of cumulative ship service life in the 2028 to 2035 timeframe,” reads a Thursday news release from the service. “The Navy has proposed DDG service life extension funding in the FY26 budget request, and will update the shipbuilding plan accordingly.”

USS Barry (DDG-52) USS The Sullivans (DDG-68) will each get extended three years.
USS Gonzalez (DDG-66), USS Cole (DDG-67), USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53), USS Paul Hamilton (DDG-60), USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54), USS Laboon (DDG-58), USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) and USS Stout (DDG-55) will each get extended for five years.
USS Carney (DDG-64) and USS Stethem (DDG-63) will receive one-year extensions.

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“We expect a total cost estimate of $1.3 billion across the FY26 FYDP and $6 billion over 15-years,” a spokesperson for Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told USNI News. “On average, it will cost about $139.6 million per ship [per] year.”

Del Toro ordered the service to assess all Flight I destroyers this year, resulting in the 12 service life extensions. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are initially slated for 35 years in the the fleet.

“The Navy is actively pulling the right levers to maintain and grow its Battle Force Inventory to support the United States’s global interests in peace and to win decisively in conflict,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti said in a statement.

Thursday’s announcement comes after the Navy in August 2023 said it would extend the lives of four Flight I destroyers. The service opted to extend USS Milius (DDG-69) and USS Mitscher (DDG-57) each by four years, while it extended USS Benfold (DDG-65) and USS Ramage (DDG-61) each by five years, according to an announcement at the time.

One of the Flight I destroyers the Navy has not opted to extend the service life of is USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62), which was involved in a deadly collision with a container ship in 2017 off the coast of Japan that killed seven U.S. sailors.

The service life extensions come as the Navy grapples with mounting bills for new programs – a next-generation destroyer, a next-generation attack submarine and a next-generation fighter – that it must balance in the budget. Nearly two years ago, former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the service would have to prioritize the Next Generation Air Dominance program, also known as NGAD, ahead of DDG(X), the destroyer class that will follow the Arleigh Burke Flight IIIs.

It’s unclear if the Navy will still follow this plan. As of January 2024, the service planned to start construction on DDG(X) in Fiscal Year 2032 and wanted a three-year overlap between the future destroyers and the Flight III Arleigh Burkes to keep the shipbuilding industrial base humming.

A 2022 Congressional Budget Office report projected that the DDG(X) hulls could cost as much as $3.4 billion a piece.

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