It's not a topic for this column, but I have to post the link here, otherwise no one would read it. There seems to be a lot of trouble in "heaven", that is, in the US Navy.
08/25/2022
Newspaper.ru (Gazeta.ru)
The US Navy will not be killed by China, but by corrosion.
Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov spoke about the main threat to the US Navy
US Navy ships, according to The Washington Post, are "susceptible to intense rust disease." The publication refers to an "internal investigation of Congress", which revealed that up to 90% of American warships are rusting. "Gazeta.Ru" understood the reasons for what happened.
The problem of rusting US Navy ships was raised by the American edition of The Washington Post. The publication notes that "the Pentagon is facing a formidable and insidious challenge - rust, and so far rust is winning this war."
The newspaper refers to some "internal investigation of the US Congress." It turned out that up to 90% of American warships are rusting. At the same time, Pentagon officials declined to comment on this information.
This is not the first publication in the American media about the rusting American navy. Back in November 2021, The Drive compared the rusting American ships at the Norfolk base with the ships of the Soviet Navy in the period after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“A visit to the base makes a depressing impression. It's like "naval Detroit". The city became a ghost town in the 1980s when the car giants left. Norfolk became a ghost because someone in Washington decided to save money. It is not China that will kill the US Navy, but rust,” The Drive noted.
The US Navy has about 600 active ships. According to The Washington Post, $3 billion was spent on removing rust from their hulls in 2012. Such expenses, the newspaper notes, were recognized as "burdensome for the military budget."
“Currently, the US Navy has 11 aircraft carriers - 10 of the Nimitz class and the latest Ford project. At the same time, out of the top ten, only 5 are in full swing, the rest are under permanent repair. The Gerald Ford (whose construction cost $13 billion), despite the fact that it entered the fleet in 2017, has not yet passed all the necessary tests and, most likely, its full operation will not begin soon - the ammunition supply systems do not work on deck. By 2024, the United States plans to complete the construction of two more Ford-class aircraft carriers. By this time, the Gerald Ford will already have time to rust, ”Sergei Belousov, a member of the Collegium of Military Experts, told Gazeta.Ru.
According to The Washington Post, 2013 saw a "naval budget anomaly". "Until 2012, huge sums were spent on rust control. Then it was considered ineffective. But instead of balancing the costs, they were simply removed completely, ”the Washington Post notes.
“All ships rust, regardless of their affiliation,” Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, ex-commander of the Black Sea Fleet, told Gazeta.Ru. - You need to understand that the ship has a metal hull that is in sea water, which is an aggressive environment that causes oxidation, which contributes to the appearance of rust. It does not affect the combat capability or visibility of the ship, but over time it leads to the destruction of the ship's structures. And here we are talking, first of all, about constant care and maintenance of order.
Komoyedov believes that the costs of rust control in the Russian and Soviet fleets have never been "critical". “You can’t spend a lot of money on this, but you can’t forget about it either. We have always had a “golden mean” here. Americans are thrown from one extreme to another. At first they, relatively speaking, polished every scratch. And now, on the contrary, they decided that it’s not worth dealing with the topic at all,” says Komoyedov.
In March 2019, Defense News noted that "a drastic reduction in rust preventive maintenance could lead to catastrophic consequences."
“Rust on a ship is an alarming symptom for any fleet,” military expert Captain 1st Rank Vasily Dandykin told Gazeta.Ru. - It means either a lack of proper funding, or a lack of discipline and complete relaxation, which leads to a loss of combat readiness
We went through this in the early 1990s, when the Navy was slaughtered alive and the ships were idle at the quay wall. There ships and rust without movement. Fortunately, the situation has changed and our fleet has received movement.
This can be seen not only at naval parades, but also during long-distance sea voyages, both in the Atlantic and in the Pacific.
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They have lost their mibd in the US. 
