Re: Repair costs and false economies (was Re: Battle blimps)

On 19-Apr-02 at 21:46, Michael Llaneza (maserati@earthlink.net) wrote:
> Peacetime repairs count as "training". The savings in peacetime by 
> outsourcing your repair work is going to be outweighed in wartime by 
> having important pieces of equipment sidelined for repairs that can't
be 
> done in the field due to a shortage of trained and experienced.

One of the major reasons the Navy can have such good repair is there
is room in the ship for machine shops and electronics shops.  The
other armed forces don't have that immediate access.  It makes
sense for them to rely on depot level maintenance because they
can.

Don't know how true it is, but there is a story about the
"lost" machine shop on the USS Enterprise.  Seems she was
in the yards for a refit when they cut through a bulkhead
to run a cable.  Inside they found a complete machine shop
completely seeled to the outside.  It had been that way
since initial construction...