Posted on 12/04/2016 1:26:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. arms industry is ready and capable of boosting production of new ships if President-elect Donald Trump makes good his vow to expand the U.S. Navy to 350 ships, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson told Reuters.
Shifting the current target of 308 ships upwards would be "remarkably easy" as long as there is funding to pay the bill, the top uniformed Navy official said in an interview at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum in southern California.
"If it's resourced, it's a matter of working closely with the industrial base, and they definitely are ready to do that," he said, adding the only limiting factor would be hiring and training workers to build the new ships....
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Only one question: Who do I need to invest in?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Nah ! USS Hunley gets the 2nd build, first build is the USS Turtle. First American submarine in combat! Built by a Connecticut inventor named Bushnell. Tried but failed to sink a British ship in the Revolution. It also successfully brought the crew (crew of 1 !) back!
For making liberal heads explode i would take some initial plans of the Kriegsmarine H44 class battleship, keep one battery of the 20’ guns but build a railgun AND a Metalstorm style launcher of just off the top of my head 20 to 30mm rounds, a rate of fire far faster than any gatling guns but designed to ward of swarms of anything from speedboats to thousands of aerial drones.
The Kriegsmarine H44 was bigger than the Iowa Class technically to rival the Montana Class. Bigger than the Musashi.
Need to rebuild the steel plants that were shut down by liberals, especially on the west coast though i can arguably say Trump might bypass Kallifornica.
We do NOT need our warships built with cheap chinese steel, they deliberately make it right on the edge of useless, just enough to pass the tests, but still subgrade compared to US steel or even german steel.
Arguably subs are the most lethal, if i was asked to propose a future study of underwater boats i could go the route of building drone subs that mimic biologicals, like killer whales, tens of thousands built, badically advanced AI super torpedos that can sit on station for months, are deep diving, can surface to launch aerial drones or themselves launch advanced torpedos. Infiltrators.Terminators.
I like this idea. Give it 16 inch rail guns.
RACIST!
I like it. But I think we can do better.
Here is the problem with little scrappy ships:
Scrappy = crappy!
automatic word completion :-(
People will think they named it after Mitch McConnell.
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