Posted on 08/10/2014 10:30:47 PM PDT by george76
The U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding crisis is demonstrating far-reaching effects on the nation’s economy and foreign policy goals.
Take, for example, Ingalls’ recently closed composite-construction yard in Gulfport. First, the Coast Guard passed on composite deckhouses for its new class of fast-response cutters, going to a different design. When the Navy decided to transition from a composite deckhouse like on the first two Zumwalt-class destroyers to a steel one constructed at Bath Iron Works, that proved the knockout blow.
The yard closed in July, putting 400 shipbuilders out of work, according to local TV station WLOX. The decision was announced last year and shows the impacts of poor procurement decisions on local communities and their economies.
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The stated Navy goal of a fleet of 306 ships is in serious jeopardy.
... Navy-owned shipyards in Philadelphia and New York, among others, were closed by the Base Realignment and Closure Committee. The Avondale yard in New Orleans, which had built amphibious ships and Coast Guard cutters, closed in 2013.
The privately owned shipyards shrank to two capable of building large surface warships — Ingalls in Pascagoula and Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. There were two shipyards capable of building nuclear submarines — Electric Boat in Groton, Conn. and Newport News in Virginia, the latter also building nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
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By design.
Obastard’s assault on our national security proceeds apace...
Therefore giving our enemy a open invitation.
The sequestor’s assault on rational planning and selective prunning proceeds apace.
Yet there’s billions upon billions to give to our enemies.
Avondale closed because they built crap. There was no acountability on the part of the workers to produce a quality product.
The Navy spent MILLIONS reduing that work.
BINGO! WE HAVE A WINNER!.
If we have fewer Navy or other military leaders, we don't need any ships either. The ba$tard usurper has done everything he can to downsize our military strength and this is just one more example of his distain for our country. Oh, how I despise that creep!
This is very true - my understanding is even if we wanted to build a new battleship the tech and know how to produce the 16” plating has been lost and would need to be reinvented/recreated.
II’d be surprised to learn the US can produce good old fashioned armor of any thickness anymore.
MAYDAY MAYDAY America is sinking.
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