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Navy Officials Explain LHD-6 Scrapping, Mitigating Impacts

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020

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Navy Officials Explain LHD-6 Scrapping, Mitigating Impacts

A fire continued to be fought into the evening on board USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) at Naval Base San Diego, July 12, 2020. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

Navy officials further explained to a congressional panel on Wednesday why they decided to scrap the fire-damaged USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) and how they are looking to mitigate impacts. On Monday, the Navy said it decided to scrap LHD-6, concluding it would cost too much to fix or convert it to another use rather than build other new ships (Defense Daily, Nov. 30). A fire heavily damaged the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship for four days in July while undergoing maintenance…

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