We need to at least triple our rate of production of nuclear submarines. Our fleet is aging and the current delivery schedule will not even allow us to replace existing submarines as they reach retirement.
This is one of the biggest national security challenges we have right now.
“We need to at least triple our rate of production of nuclear submarines. Our fleet is aging and the current delivery schedule will not even allow us to replace existing submarines as they reach retirement.”
You do realize each missile on board has more than one warhead per each missile? Also, not all of one class of boat entered service on the same day and we have refueled boats. I have no current knowledge of where each boat reaches its expiration date,I’m operating off the boat I served on. Hurrying crap gets people killed. Subsafe and Level One control has a definite benefit to crew safety. We can stretch retire dates if necessary to meet our goals. We have so far. I agree the sooner the better but no cutting corners. Thresher is the example of crap. IMFO
There’s a gap that formed between the US industrial capacity and our military procurement goals. I don’t know when it began (my guess would be in the early 90’s when off-shoring took off). All military programs are suffering delays. No program is immune. It took 30 years to get into this mess and it will take a long time to get out of it.