Posted on 07/11/2023 4:22:00 AM PDT by Fish Speaker
Enterprise should be a museum ship
They should give them both to me. I’ll take care of the situation.
Citing shipyard squeeze
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Fact - just one Chinese shipyard is as large as all US shipyards combined.
Sansung closed their China Shipyard and 40,000 lost their jobs
Has it ever occurred to you that we have only a small number of dry docks large enough to use for carrier construction? If they are being used to dismantle old ones, where would you propose to build the new ones?
I’m going to miss the carriers.
We built 99 in 1942-43. Now it takes nine years to build one.
The Long Beach was deactivated at Newport News shipyard .
I saw it there. There are pictures of it in the Shipyard on Wikipedia.
There was a small crowd watching the day they went into drydock.
Refurbish them.
We’re going to need as many ships as possible to counter the ChiCom threat.
China has plenty of shipyards.
So which drydocks are owned by the US Navy? And what’s this “we” talk?
“We” don’t own anything - “we” are just paying for it.
* we = American taxpayer and their next 3 to 9 generations.
What could possibly go wrong?
Sansung closed their China Shipyard and 40,000 lost their jobs
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Samsung really is not in the shipbuilding business; it was just one of many Chinese shipyards - a small one if only 40,000 lost their jobs. Chinese plants run into the 100s of thousands of workers.
Just run it ashore in Bangladesh and stand back.
"We" still own the place. The usurpers are a problem for sure.
Most of them were “Escort Carriers”, smaller than “Fleet Carriers”.
The Navy seems to be asking for the commercial shipyards to build more large dry docks. They don’t want to build their own.
My bad - apparently they do ‘own’ them, as they’re Navy facilities, but I’ll continue to presume that they’re like so many other highly specialized/technical setups - they own, but everyone there works for some huge contractor(s). From looks of quick search, they’ve actually been shutting some down.
At the core of all of this is ‘the fleece’, you can count on that.
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard PSNS bkmk
Holy smokes!! The Navy owns them?? We both got slam-dunked. ;-D
Brazil had one, they sold it for parts. Sounds about right.
We might lease a few out for rap video shoots so twerkers can dance on the hulls.
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