15 Subs Kept Out of Service: 177 Months Of Drydock Backups
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on October 31, 2017 at 1:54 PM
WASHINGTON: A massive maintenance backlog has idled 15 nuclear-powered attack submarines for a total of 177 months, and the Navy’s plan to mitigate the problem is jeopardized by budget gridlock, two House Armed Services Committee staffers told Breaking Defense.
That is almost 15 submarine-years, the equivalent of taking a boat from the 2018 budget and not adding it back until 2033.
https://breakingdefense.com/2017/10/15-subs-kept-out-of-service-177-months-of-drydock-backups/
