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To: BroJoeK
Today's numbers are roughly 273 major warships

Depends on how you define 'major'. Or to use the term the navy uses for the 273, 'deployable'. I expect they are counting a number of ships that would require significant work or training before they were actually deployed.

21 posted on 07/19/2015 10:24:13 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
PAR35: "...the term the navy uses for the 273, 'deployable'.
I expect they are counting a number of ships that would require significant work or training before they were actually deployed. "

Agreed, but readiness is a very different subject, leads us into "sequestration" and other such Obamanations, which positively I don't want to go there.

Hopefully, reason and light will again prevail after the 2016 elections.
But one good thing we can count on -- it's much cheaper & quicker to restore existing ships/planes/tanks/etc. to mission-ready condition than it is to build new ones...

26 posted on 07/19/2015 4:02:13 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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