Posted on 06/09/2024 8:20:05 PM PDT by hardspunned
The decommissioning schedule for the U.S. Navy’s remaining 13 Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers has been set. Next to leave service will be the Vicksburg (CG 69) in June 2024, followed by the Cowpens (CG 63) in August, Antietam (CG 54) and Leyte Gulf (CG 55) in September. Overall, the last two cruisers will likely be Chosin (CG 65) and Cape St. George (CG 71), both to be decommissioned in fiscal 2027. The close of their careers will bring an end to the service life of the class, the world’s first to be equipped with the Aegis combat system.
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Tariffs are not "barriers". Import quotas are barriers. You are bringing the export market into the discussion. I am not sure why. I am talking about imports and promoting domestic industry. Stay on track.
Killing off domestic industry is not the solution!!!
Yes.
USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) is an Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy, the 71st overall for the class. She was commissioned on May 14, 2022
The first DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer to be built in the Flight III configuration,
the Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), was successfully launched at Huntington Ingalls Industries, Ingalls Shipbuilding division, June 4, 2021 and commissioned on October 7, 2023.
The Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) was commissioned, Saturday, May 13, 2024 (in the Flight IIA configuration), and the future Ted Stevens (DDG 128), christened 19 August, 2023 and Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129) was laid down 16 August 2022—both as Flight III ships.
There are a total of 20 DDG 51 class ships under contract at both new construction shipyards.
By way of example, John, a friend of mine in the 1980s did not want to go to college but became a local auto mechanic. Being bright and highly capable, he was put onto servicing BMWs. He brought manuals home and read them more diligently and with greater comprehension than most college students accomplish as to their textbooks. John won national recognition as a BMW mechanic and was given an all expense paid trip to Germany for additional training and two weeks of vacation.
In time, BMW corporate hired John and posted him to Charleston to inspect and repair vehicles imported into the US. The last I heard though, he was in a supervisory capacity with BMW in a manufacturing plant they built in South Carolina.
Is that BMW plant part of the American manufacturing base? It is, but not quite as much as if it were a Ford or GM plant. After all, even if the jobs in the plant are almost entirely held by Americans, the profits from their work go back to BMW in Germany.
They are being replaced by Trans Acceptance Training
“Most GPS will work against the Russians. Russia has limited spoofing capabilities, and GPS jammers are a huge neon sign saying ‘send a missile here’. Russia won’t have enough of this equipment to be that useful across their entire military front.”
Except that has been PROVEN WRONG. But nice try.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/24/russia-jamming-us-weapons-ukraine/
Down with men of war, up with WOKE!
I could not agree more with you. We have TEN additional Ford class dinosaurs in the pipeline. With our MIC profits trump battlefield utility and survivability every time.
“Russian naval capabilities? Russia is handily losing the sea battle to a nation with no navy.”
I didn’t realize that NATO didn’t have a navy.
That’s all I need to read.
I would just like to add to this thread something that was reported in another article about the U.S. Navy ship building industry recenently. A group of Navy officers together with some executives in U.S. companies that work on building U.S. navy ships, madde a visit to South Korea recently. They said they were amazed at how modern was the Korean naval shipbuilding industry, with so much more technology, automation and efficiencies than our American shipbuilding works.
But that makes sense to me. Our naval shipbuilding efforts and aircraft building efforts as well, have gotten fat, lazy and “old” with a Congress that has failed to demand those industries advance, just handed them the money, while in little South Korea they cannot afford to be running 19XX military industry businesses in 2024. Actually, we cannot afford it either, and now when we can afford it least it will take more investment to get our shipbuilding industry modernized.
“Flight III Arleigh Burke-class” are actually Cruisers by any definition.
SpaceX !
Now if Elon Musk were to create OceanX and build ships for the U.S. Navy they'd be the best ships in the world; most advanced and cost-effectively built!
Any government program particularly DOD programs if large enough (and by large enough I mean lucrative!) no matter how necessary eventually evolve into a jobs program to keep congressmen and senators in power! That’s all the space program is now. I am not sure what the solution for this is. Let’s not forget that Musk built his empire on a lot of government subsidies. I think some of enterprises are finally making money commercially. If government is the customer, you have to go to government to get the requirements as well as the funding. (If commercial - you look at the market and generate your own “design\build to” requirements!) With government requirements they are in the driver’s seat. That means you have to do the political dancing with congresscritters\senators, etc. which means you head down that same path to be nothing more then a jobs programs.
Thank you very much.
If you read all the posts, that is not the case.
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