Can we even afford to build more?
To: whyilovetexas111
the American naval shipbuilding industry, which is plagued by inefficiencies, delays, and an inability to keep pace with the rapid expansion of China’s Navy.We can't build anything anymore except for Elon Musk. We won't even have a space program.
To: whyilovetexas111
“American naval shipbuilding industry, which is plagued by inefficiencies....”
IOW corporate DEI hiring. Targeting the old white guys to teach and support the new ‘diverse’ employees who are encouraged to hate on them.
If the corporation can’t do it with their new recruiting and management practices -FIRE THE CORPORATION
Cancel their contracts. Someone better will come along
3 posted on
07/07/2025 12:13:48 PM PDT by
Justa
(Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
To: whyilovetexas111
We probably don’t need that many. There are not many real blue water navies anymore.
To: whyilovetexas111
I hear the Germans make pretty good submarines, maybe they could sell us a couple.
5 posted on
07/07/2025 12:19:16 PM PDT by
Orosius
To: whyilovetexas111
Decades of zero accountability in the Navy's shipbuilding program: horrendous cost overruns, tech that doesn't work or too expensive to deploy, failure to maintain the industrial base. Firings? Lawsuits? Court martials? Surely you jest.
All the chickens are coming home to roost.
7 posted on
07/07/2025 12:21:34 PM PDT by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
To: whyilovetexas111
ironically, we could order nuclear submarines from Germany
9 posted on
07/07/2025 12:36:07 PM PDT by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: whyilovetexas111
> aging Los Angeles-class boats are being retired faster than new Virginia-class submarines can be built <
I don’t know much about submarines. So I’ve got to ask. We can keep B-52s in service for many, many decades. Why can’t the same be done with submarines? Does it have something to do with the sub’s nuclear fuel?
Last B-52 was built in 1962.
Last Los Angeles-class submarine was built in 1996.
10 posted on
07/07/2025 12:37:06 PM PDT by
Leaning Right
(It's morning in America. Again.)
To: whyilovetexas111
Our submarine fleet is just fine.
Our competition is generations behind our fleet. We might not be replacing them one-for-one, but the new ones are force multipliers vs the existing threat.
This is more crap from the “America sucks” crowd.
To: whyilovetexas111
Time to break out the submersible drones.
21 posted on
07/07/2025 12:49:46 PM PDT by
rottndog
(What comes after America?)
To: whyilovetexas111
Paging Secretary Hegseth.
23 posted on
07/07/2025 12:59:30 PM PDT by
A Navy Vet
(USA Birth Certificate - 1789. Death Certificate - 2021? )
To: whyilovetexas111
"Can we even afford to build more?" More importantly: "Can we even afford to not build more?
27 posted on
07/07/2025 1:10:40 PM PDT by
SuperLuminal
(Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
To: whyilovetexas111
And we bypassed the Seawolf somehow. The Russians are still active. A friend’s son was a bubblehead. He knows too well.
31 posted on
07/07/2025 1:54:50 PM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
To: whyilovetexas111
U.S.S. Nightmare
Can anyone write?
To: whyilovetexas111
Globalism and off shoring are the gifts that free traitors gave us.
37 posted on
07/07/2025 3:30:05 PM PDT by
central_va
(The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: whyilovetexas111
I have read many times that our Littoral vessels suck and that we should stop making them because they are worthless. So, yeah, build good ships instead.
39 posted on
07/07/2025 7:05:59 PM PDT by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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