The US Navy will withdraw a nuclear submarine from the fleet after repairs for $ 800 million.

The US Navy has decided to decommission the nuclear submarine USS Boise, which took about $800 million to repair. This was announced on April 10 by US Secretary of the Navy John Phelan.

"We screwed up <...> It doesn't look good. It is what it is. It's time to move on, try to move forward and develop in the future," Phelan commented on the decision to decommission the submarine, as quoted by Semafor.

In addition, he noted that this decision was made as part of a large-scale reorganization of the Golden Fleet at the initiative of US President Donald Trump. It is clarified that the decommissioning of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Boise has been postponed for years, and in 2017 she lost her diving clearance due to delayed repairs.

According to the publication, in the amount of $800 million, only 22% of the planned major repairs were completed.

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