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Poking around I see that the Navy is constantly trying to improve their paint/coatings systems. Is there any chance that these issues are not fleet wide? Like,

Poking around I see that the Navy is constantly trying to improve their paint/coatings systems. Is there any chance that these issues are not fleet wide? Like, did they figure out a coating system that works better and are deferring maintenance more on ships that are going to get it soon? Probably not of course.

implements 4y ago
> The Navy fights incidental rust at sea by scraping it off and then painting over it with Ameron PSX-700. Look up the price of Ameron PSX-700 and you get a feel for why fighting rust is so expensive: the paint costs $250 a gallon. More in-depth work is done at shipyards. Seems like nothing can survive being pressure washed by seawater for several months.