Is there any point to reserve/mothball fleet?

[NMaude]

https://www.navsource.net/archives/04/acr11/acr1107.jpg

That should've been preserved as a museum-ship.

 

[Kat Tsun]

Apparently no Mk-II Tico's were scrapped yet.

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Five cruisers are moored at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, according to Google Earth. Doesn't seems to be dismantled. Assuming crews could be found, they probably could be re-activated reasonably fast.

They're ancient. They would need a year or two of Aegis overhauls and major checks to ensure they won't split in half due to hull fatigue.

I guess what do you mean by ‘reasonably fast’?
How many shipyards do we have that could do the work they need? How many of those shipyards already have contracts to build or repair other ships in coming into service or already in service?

Even if we had 3 slots and work force available to put these ships into a shipyard, it would probably take a year to get them back into service.

Delaying the Flight III Burkes to reactivate the Ticos would be a power move though.

I meant that their main systems could likely be re-activated without the need to completely diassemble and reassemble them, and their their electronics is still up to date enough to not require immediate refit to be useful. They probably would be glitchy and prone to malfunction; but could be restored to somewhat combat condition in several months, not years.

Two years for each initial ship and then one or one and a half years for each after, assuming nothing serious is found (like you need to reinforce the hull with HY80 strakes or something), the electrical fits are in expected condition (salvagable), and you have two yards (or drydocks) doing this in parallel you could have all five reactivated in as many years.

There's a lot of effort in mothballing, and the biggest one is just starting the boats and taking them for a spin now and again, which hasn't happened for several years with the Ticos at Philly.

It would be faster and cheaper to just wait for the Big Burke Printer to 3D print another five Burkes tbh.

 

[Archdude]

For Brazil, Argentina and Chile such ships would be of no interest; they already have dreadnoughts (and Argentina - modern medihm cruisers), and they didn't want to spend money on obsolete units. Of other Latin American nations, only Peru and Mexico might be interested (but Peru at this time preferred submarines, and Mexico did not have ocean-capable navy at all).

I believe the Washington and London Naval disarmament treaties prohibited any sale, transfer or disposal to any other country.