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Re: Raritan Valley Coalition pushing for direct NJT RVL service to New York using ALP-45DPs |
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Posted by WillD on Sat May 11 21:25:03 2013, in response to Re: Raritan Valley Coalition pushing for direct NJT RVL service to New York using ALP-45DPs, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sat May 11 14:35:09 2013. Eh? You have a problem with numbers? The USS Ford is slated to cost on the order of $9 billion, not counting upwards of $8 billion spent on R&D for that class of carriers. That's right in line with the estimated cost of the ARC project, and doesn't count the escort ships which are required to defend the carrier in a CVBG.ARC would not have operating costs remotely comparable that for the carrier battle group, which amount to an eye popping 2.2 billion dollars a year. Just eliminating a carrier battle group for a decade would finance a tremendous amount of infrastructure. Over a fourty year lifespan of that carrier and the associated reduction in demand for escorts in its battle group we'd easily be looking at much more than $120 billion in savings by eliminating one CVBG. |
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