{"id":78165,"date":"2018-03-10T08:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78165"},"modified":"2018-03-10T08:16:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:16:34","slug":"navy-cancels-green-destroyer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78165","title":{"rendered":"Navy cancels &#8220;green destroyer&#8221; program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=78166\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-78166\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Truxton-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-78166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Truxton-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Truxton-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Truxton-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Truxton.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2018\/03\/08\/the-us-navy-is-cancelling-a-program-to-turn-gas-guzzling-destroyers-into-hybrids\/\">Defense News<\/a> which reports that the latest defense budget cuts the program that the Obama Administration to create hybrid destroyers. USS Truxton (DDG-103) will remain the sole &#8220;green&#8221; destroyer for testing purposes to see if the system becomes viable;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Citing \u201cdepartment priorities,\u201d the service requested $6.3 million for 2018 to finish the installation on the destroyer Truxtun, but has zeroed out funding in 2019 and in the out years. The service has spent about $52 million on the program to date. The whole program was expected to cost $356.25 million, according to the Navy\u2019s FY2017 budget submission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the Department\u2019s priorities, President\u2019s Budget 2019 removes funding from Hybrid Electric Drive program in FY 2019,\u201d said Lt. Lauren Chatmas in a statement. \u201cThere are no further procurements or installations planned beyond DDG-103 in the Future Years Defense Program.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the system wasn&#8217;t saving much energy as it was envisioned by the previous administration.<\/p>\n<p>If you listen carefully, you can actually hear the oceans rising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends a link to Defense News which reports that the latest defense budget cuts the &hellip; <a title=\"Navy cancels &#8220;green destroyer&#8221; program\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78165\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy cancels &#8220;green destroyer&#8221; program<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}