What we really do not need in the future are aircraft carriers.
AI, drone swarms, hypersonic missiles and even the Houthis seem to be proving this.
But given government bloat, MIC $$$ and the massive institutional momentum and bureaucratic and career bias , changes are never made until it becomes a crisis.
Russia and China DO NOT have this locked down...China’s newest submarine sank at the pier this summer and the entire Russian Navy is in disarray.....We definitely have lost our way on shipbuilding but proper management and stable funding would fix it.
Hard to fathom?......
This author puts out a lot of articles. Same guy who only yesterday was posted here with an article with over-the-top praise for our Navy’s top admrial(ette) Lisa Franchetti. Not to be mean but it was utter drivel.
What are “…major end items”? Was this article written by AI?
Who knows what the U.S. military will look like in two decades?
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Much like the Canadian one, but smaller.
The US Navy cannot afford to maintain the ships they have, don’t have enough sailors to man them, but now they want to build a multi billion, multi billion dollar submarine?
There are only two types of ships ... submarines and targets. We need more of one and less of the other. When I rode boomers back in the 70s, there were 41 SSBNs. Now there are 14. We have 54 fast attacks now when we used to have over 100.
“Hard to fathom?”
Bad rivets?
A reminder: It’s not “our” navy, except in the sense that we’re forced to pay for it.
Waving my hand wildly in the air.
I DO! I DO!
It will look like a pride parade in San Francisco.