Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs

Re:Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs by joshsabol46 on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @12:41AM (#22681983)

> Overall, the Ford’s estimated lifetime operations and sustainment costs have grown to $123 billion from $77.3 billion, the most of six programs GAO evaluated.

That's an expensive boat.

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Re:Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs by pjleonhardt on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @01:05AM (#22682079)

Its a floating city, a floating airport, 2 nuclear reactors, supports 4500 people, and go at > 30 knots. Yeah, that comes at a cost.

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Re:Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @01:20AM (#22682147)

27 million dollars of upkeep per person is still pretty ridiculous. How many parts are they burning up on a daily basis?

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Re:Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs by manigandham on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @01:38AM (#22682234)

Why is the "per-person" cost relevant?

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Re:Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @02:15AM (#22682379)

Because, after you remove the cost of having the crew and supplying them with basic maintenance parts, it gives you an idea of how many people on the ground are needed to support each person onboard, just to supply expensive parts that are being constantly burned through.

Ideally this supply of burned-up parts would not be particularly huge.

But I didn't realize that number was for a full fifty years, so I'll take back the 'ridiculous'. It's still a whole lot.

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Re:Unclogging Toilets at $400k a Flush Hits Navy’s Costs by anovikov on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @01:39AM (#22682236)

Over 50 years! Not so ridiculous. It even includes crew costs. Isn't it about as much as a software engineer total costs in a typical Valley company?

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