Posted on 04/30/2026 7:03:48 PM PDT by daniel1212
American officials are considering foreign designs and having U.S. warship components built in overseas yards as part of an expansive manufacturing study proposed in the Fiscal Year 2027 budget,...
Specifically, the Pentagon has directed the Navy to consider Japanese and Korean shipyards and designs for use in the U.S. fleet, USNI News has learned.
Earlier this week, when asked about the study, the now former Secretary of the Navy John Phelan told USNI News that the Department of the Navy was considering foreign shipyards for not only auxiliary supply ships, but also for work on U.S. warships...
South Korea and Japan both field guided-missile destroyers that use the American-designed Aegis combat systems and American AN/SPY-1 radars as the backbones of their surface fleets.
European allies like the Netherlands, Norway and Spain also field the Aegis baseline on their own guided-missile warships. While some of the ships share systems, U.S. combatants are built to a higher survivability standard than most allied navies. For example, modifying the original Italian design of the Constellation-class guided-missile frigate led to costly design overruns and ultimately the program’s cancellation...
The Trump administration has been frustrated with the pace of U.S. naval and Coast Guard shipbuilders, actively encouraged foreign shipbuilders to set up shop domestically and looked to foreign builders for auxiliaries and cutters...
Last year, the U.S. Coast Guard elected to build two Arctic Security Cutter designs for a new class of medium icebreakers. Shipyards in Finland will build the lead ships as part of an Ice Pact cooperative agreement between the U.S., Finland and Canada...
Federal law restricts the construction of warships for the U.S. Navy to American shipyards unless there is a waiver from the president on national security grounds... During World War II, the U.S. purchased small frigates from Canada
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
If US shipbuilders demonstrated a modicum of urgency and rolled out their product ON TIME it would not be an issue.
The US cannot be held hostage to their incompetence.
Mallory Shelbourne...
Did she ever sign Hegseth’s pledge...?
If not, nuff said.
Yep. Apparently the admin has given all legal authority and all funding and the shipyards are still moving like sloths.
Trump ordered it.
Congress funded it.
But the shipyards are moving at a glacial speed. Blame them.
American shipyards and workers should get this work.
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Does not matter - there are not enough US shipyards nor are they big enough to do the work. And, due to unionization, they are too expensive and way too slow.
Fix the problem and dont offshore it. If the USA cant produce destroyers then thats more important to fix than the ships themselves. You don’t have a strategic bone in your body.
We have a problem with not enough ships and not enough trained people to build them right now. We can start training more people but its going to take time. In the meantime we need more ships. Wishing we had enough welders, plumbers, mechanics, etc to build the ships we need doesn’t make it so.
Nope. If we give in then the infrastructure will never be built. Infrastructure first then ships.
“You hate unions more than you love your country. Spit.”
You LOVE (Communist) unions more than your country. SPLAT.
Reported.
Report well.
I am pro us worker and some are in a union. 93% are not in any union.
“I am pro us worker and some are in a union. 93% are not in any union.”
Sucks having COMMUNISTS here.
As strange as it sounds, thank god the mob ran the unions, instead of Commies.
“As strange as it sounds, thank god the mob ran the unions, instead of Commies.”
Yep, I’ve been studying the mob, and one thing that I find interesting is just how ‘convenient’ the unions were to making the mob EXTREMELY POWERFUL.
But you’re right - if the unions were NOT controlled by the mob, then the Soviets would have used them to completely DESTROY our country (no doubt something the union apologist dreams of). But the mob still needed to keep our economy going, in order to skim off their share...so the mob was certainly a mitigating factor in what the unions would have done to us, otherwise.
By the way, in Japan, in the 1950s, just after the war, the idiots under Ike allowed a bunch of Leftist 19th Amendment types (kind of redundant) write the Japanese Constitution in a way that empowered unions. Not long after, after a bunch of strikes with the populace already starving, the unions decided on a general strike, which would have totally overthrown their government and handed the country to the Soviet Union (the dream of our union apologist here)...but then Ike had to step-in and basically said “this sucks, let’s put unions in their place”...which then set off the Japanese miracle, bringing them to a First World country.
Then we will have a critical weakness - ie a lack of ships - for years.
Interesting that Ingalls is still a going concern. My granddad was “head rigger” who, I’m told, is the person that decides when ship is ready to sail. He was ALWAYS drunk but shipyard owner didn’t care because “he did a better job drunk than anyone else did sober.”
LOL even now.
Half of America hates the other half and vice versa.
That concerns me less than not having a ship building industry.
Cover the gap with ships now and train the people we need to ramp up our production capacity for the future so we’re not caught with major shortfalls in the future. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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