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.
” 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 the difference is that S Korea is the second largest civilian ship constructor in the world.
US civilian ship construction is basically zero (less than 10 per year).
So the Us is attempting to maintain a military shipyard capacity on top of a civilian which no longer exists.