[modwest]

It’s not. Commenters on HN know jack shit about this topic but love commenting like they have any idea. It’s the thing HN is most known-for: non-experts speaking out of their ass with top-tier confidence.

Edit: it’s not even halfway through its projected lifecycle.

[avs733]

hey now...most of us speak out our ass with top-tier confidence about things we ARE experts in. Don't limit us.

[galacticaactual]

Well. Given that I've planned and rehearsed operations with this exact ship, I'll stand by my comment - this ship and its guts are hardly new. In colloquial terms - "old."

[mattdeboard]

It’s not old. It’s not new. Wasp classes have a half-century lifespan. It’s one of the newest Wasp classes to be commissioned. You still have plankholders on active duty. By ship standards this is not an old ship.