{"id":12994,"date":"2021-08-16T17:34:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=12994"},"modified":"2021-08-16T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:34:16","slug":"new-dry-docks-for-the-virginia-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/neue-trockendocks-fuer-die-virginia-klasse\/","title":{"rendered":"New dry docks for the Virginia class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, is receiving two new dry docks as part of its modernisation. The existing dock, which dates back to the Second World War, is no longer suitable for the tasks of repairing the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Virginia<\/span>-class are no longer sufficient. Designed for conventional submarines of the same size, the nuclear-powered and significantly larger boats can no longer be maintained efficiently.<br \/>\nIn total, the Ministry of Defence is investing more than 1.7 billion dollars in the construction, which is scheduled for completion in June 2028. Until now, submarines have only been able to enter and leave the current dry dock number 1 on a few days each month due to the tides. A situation that the Navy no longer wanted to accept. As part of the modernisation and expansion, a so-called Super Flood Basin will therefore be created in front of the three docks. In this 1.4 hectare basin, the water level can be artificially raised to allow the 115 metre long and 10 metre wide submarines of the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Virginia<\/span>-class to enable travelling 365 days a year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12992\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12992\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo.jpg\" alt=\"USS Santa Fe in Kittery\" width=\"1500\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo.jpg 1500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo-300x149.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo-1024x507.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo-768x380.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo-1080x535.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo-750x372.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-08-16-Trockendock-3-mfo-1140x565.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Santa Fe in Kittery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Text: mb; Photos: US Navy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, erh\u00e4lt im Zuge der Modernisierung zwei neue Trockendocks. Das bestehende, noch aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg stammende Dock ist f\u00fcr die Aufgaben zur Instandsetzung der Virginia-Klasse nicht mehr ausreichend. F\u00fcr die konventionellen U-Boote der damaligen Gr\u00f6\u00dfe konstruiert, k\u00f6nnen die nuklear angetriebenen und deutlich gr\u00f6\u00dferen Boote nicht mehr effizient gewartet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,486,45,42,52],"tags":[1545,1544,1105],"class_list":["post-12994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schiffsbau-news","category-headlines","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-news","category-technologie-news","tag-kittery","tag-portsmouth-naval-shipyard","tag-virginia-klasse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}