USS Miami to be Scrapped

The Navy is giving up on repairing USS Miami and will scrap her.

According to The Day, the estimated repair costs went from $450 million to $700 million. Anyone somewhat familiar with ship repairs could add another 20% to that for repairs for stuff not yet known. And $700 million for repairing that boat would mean that a hell of a lot of other repairs to other ships would be deferred.

Also, although repair funds and new construction are two different pots of money, spending a billion dollars to repair a 23-year old sub is insane when, for twice that, the Navy can buy another new Virginia-class SSN that'll be serviceable for four times the projected remaining life of the Miami.