[RitchieAprile]

Captain Sig, your quota has just been increased!

[PIF]

We have one broken down conventionality-powered heavy Ice Breaker - the new conventionality-powered medium ones will not come online for years. By then, the US will have zero heavies, none of which will be nuclear. Which in effect seeds both the Arctic and Antarctic to Russia and China - because without heavies, there is no way to break the ice to create lanes for ships.

The Chinese have one or two modern heavies and are building more - all nuclear; the Russians have dozens of modern heavies nuclear and non-nuclear. Most of the Russian heavies are heavily armed. Our new ones may be.

[arthurus]

How many years would it take us to build a dozen large icebreaker ships? Or are waiting for Global Warming to melt the ice and thus equalize opportunities in the Arctic? We are very limited in what we can do up there. We don't have the icebreakers. Russia has several times the number if these ships over what we have and two of the Russians are nuclear powered. See the illustrated list

[PIF]

Basically this is posturing for public benefit without a single dedicated ship to back up anything and none in any budget or even publicly discussed. Just hollow rhetoric. A puff piece.

The three new medium breakers will not be on line anytime soon, and when they are, they will spend a good bit of operational time shuttling back and forth between the Arctic and Antarctic.

[Savage Beast]

Maybe it’s time to reconsider the offer to buy Greenland.

[Midwesterner53]

Maybe getting rid of the crippling political correctness would be a good first step to restore the Navy to it’s former greatness.