USS John C. Stennis Undergoes $2.9B Overhaul | Russia Inks Altius-RU Production Deal | Airbus Confir

[rangerrebew]

USS John C. Stennis Undergoes $2.9B Overhaul | Russia Inks Altius-RU Production Deal | Airbus Confirms Participation in Malaysia’s MPA Tender
Feb 24, 2021 05:00 UTC by Defense Industry Daily staff
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Raytheon won a $14.9 million contract modification external link, which increases the scope and provides updates to the CV-22 mission planning system to support the suite of integrated radio frequency countermeasures. Additionally, this modification provides capability defect package problem reports in support of the V-22 software support activity. The V-22 Osprey is a joint-service, medium-lift, multimission tilt-rotor aircraft developed by Boeing and Bell Helicopters. The US Air Force and US Navy variants are equipped with a Raytheon AN/APQ-186 terrain-following, multimode radar. Work will take place in Indiana and estimated completion will be in September 2022.

The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis is to undergo external link a four-year overhaul at a cost of $2.9 billion. According to the Defense Department external link, “this effort refuels, overhauls and modernizes USS John C. Stennis to support the second half of its 50-year service life. The ship will be the seventh US aircraft carrier to undergo the Refueling and Complex Overhaul. Plans for the rebuilding began in 2018, when Huntington Ingalls Industries’ external link Newport News Shipbuilding received a $187 million contract to begin engineering-pre-overhaul inspections. The overhaul includes removal of the flight deck and most of the shup’s computer and combat systems, the renovation of tanks and other spaces and refueling its two nuclear reactors, followed by a total reconstruction.

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[PeteS in CA]

The John C. Stennis was commissioned in 1995, the 7th of 10 Nimitz class CVNs.

Reading histories of the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, the way operations had to be woven around the need to refuel various ships in USN and IJN task forces, gave me perspective on CVNs' ability to go without refueling for 25 years.

[rangerrebew]

I was on a conventional carrier.  We came out of the yards and did some training before heading over seas.  The Captain came on the 1 MC and told us our recent SFOMS period was so successful our ship was getting 13 1/2 feet per gallon of fuel.  While one headed for the South China sea, another was on it's way back from deployment.  That is pretty expensive traveling.