What ice? And why bother guarding the coasts when we don’t guard the land
Well yeah, what the hell for? Ain’t gonna be no ice in what, ten years?
Let me guess: The Biden Administration will cancel or slow roll them, and China will build an exact blueprint copy for themselves.
Back in the Clinton Admin, they went so far as dismantle Defense production lines, and ship them to China, for their use.
Why not just ask Russia for their specs. They know what they’re doing.
Furthermore, the USCG said that the concept for a nuclear-powered icebreaker as requested by the Trump Administration did not go forward after an analysis.
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No saunas and tennis courts for the Coasties. Every other country with heavy IBs does and, like Russia, more than one - even the Chinese are building one. The old backup and ram maneuver instead of slicing through at speed like the Big Boys.
More folly from the DHS. They must need the money for new office furniture, pay raises, perks, junkets, and bribes. Ceding the Arctic and Antarctic to other interested parties ...
The Russians appear to be betting on this and are expanding their fleet of icebreakers. If we don't respond we are ceding the Arctic to the Russians, apparently.
But.. But.. I thought global varming was melting the polar ice caps here and on Mars too.