Posted on 11/28/2015 12:36:40 PM PST by markomalley
Edited on 11/28/2015 12:42:31 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Navy faces a crisis on the near horizon with too few ships, tired sailors and emerging global threats, leaving the Pentagon with no easy choices, a new study concludes.
The main problem facing the Navy and Marine Corps is "that demand for naval forces exceeds the supply they can sustainably deliver," according to the report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) released Nov. 18.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
Because...America.
Build the Montana class!
Exactly.
The Strait of Hormuz was MADE for fast BBs.
I had to look that up. :)
Battleships 

B Battleship (prior to 1920)
BB Battleship (after 1920)
BBC Battleship, Command Ship
BBG Battleship, Missile
BBH Battleship, Helicopter
M Monitor (prior to 1920)
BM Monitor (after 1920)
Notes:
The early pre-dreadnoughts Maine and Texas were commissioned as “Second Class Battleships” but apparently did not receive hull series numbers. Maine was originally designated as Armored Cruiser #1 (ACR-1) but was reclassified during construction.
Many pre-dreadnoughts were colloquially known as “Coastal Defense Ships” as they were not designed nor intended to fight far from home. Some of these were officially renamed as “Coast Battleship #X” (with “X” being their hull number) in March - April 1919 in order to free up their names for new construction. Surviving pre-dreadnoughts were reclassified as “Battleships” and given the BB designation in the 17 July 1920 assignment, although many of these were then rapidly scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Limitation Treaty.
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/index_ships_list.htm
Because why? Because we have billions to waste on ships that would be obsolete the moment they hit the water?
Because they are big and scary, and no more obsolete than CVNs.
We’ll bring Vinnie wid’ us and see if we’s kin persuade him....
Active Duty ping.
We make him da offer he can’t refuse... baddabing!
Sad to see a waning Navy. But then, what did we expect from Bath house Barak, the clown prince, capt. selfie stick? Maybe president mommy jeans will send them the Naptown funk video to buck em up? Oh, almost forgot....climate change! Yeah...thats the ticket.
Bless the trucker’s heart - he uses “colorful” language to express his disgust. He’s terrific. Those “refugees” are a disaster waiting to happen.
Remind me to post my niece’s boyfriend’s thoughts on women in front line combat. He ended a Marine enlistment last Spring. He was a 240 gunner in some ****hole in Afghanistan, among other billets.
Why moth ball ships if they can’t be upgraded?
Says who? Maybe we don't have enough ships to be a "Global Force for Good", but we have plenty to defend the USA...if any of our politicians are still interested in doing that job rather than paying off the defense contractors who own and operate them.
I would appreciate hearing that, Freepmail is okay.
It is a hot-button issue for me, and it has nothing to do with the bravery, dedication, or intelligence of women, but everything to do with their average physical capabilities relative to those of the average man and the logistical and psychological (unit cohesion) effects they have on all male units resulting in a degradation of capability.
LOL! You sound like someone who had that drilled into them!
Shudder...God help us
Look around. Listen.
The US government is financially no more sound than the USSR in 1988.
Things are so brittle that it will not take much to break.
You are assuming the GOP was not complicit. I think that is where your mistake is.
My thought is that we have enough carriers. The Arleigh Burkes are not big enough. I believe we need to go up in tonnage to cruiser size,18,000 tons or so, nuclear fast and capable of either joint or independent tasks and with both missiles as well as traditional weapons. As a way to save money, get rid of the littoral ships. They are as useless as monitors came to be.
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