No Travis. With the right leadership we can still crank these things out like Happy Meals.
We’ll see.
The LPD-17 and LCS programs spanned several administrations, and both were utter fiascos, with billions spent for ships that don’t work.
The Gerald Ford is years behind schedule and still rife with problems.
Ditto the Zumwalt destroyer program.
I think your optimism is based on wishful thinking of an America that is gone.
In what shipyards, with what skilled shipwrights? Most of those capabilities are gone and will take years or decades to rebuild. We have one, count it, one shipyard that can build or overhaul a carrier, and it’s on the East Coast - not real
useful for a Pacific war. Take that yard out, our fleet carriers no longer can be built or be repaired.