Analysts say Navy ship plan faces uncertainties By DALE EISMAN, The Virginian-Pilot © December 6, 2005 Last updated: 12:59 AM WASHINGTON — A new proposal to revive Navy shipbuilding and add more than 30 vessels to today’s fleet of about 280 depends on the service’s ability to control construction costs and keep other expenses – including the war on terror – from eating into shipbuilding budgets, independent analysts said Monday. “It’s based on everything breaking right,” said Robert Work, a retired Marine Corps colonel and defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The Navy typically is too...