Reading this article pisses me off.
The lack of shipyard capacity is going to hurt us in the near future.
I’d be open to using Korean shipyards just to get some hulls in the water.
This program should be DOGEd for efficiency
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Japan before Korea. DOGE does not do efficiency.
Why Japan over Korea?
Efficiency is in its name!
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Rahm Emanuel was touting getting Japan to help us out. Goodness but the difference between workers in Phillipines, Korea and Japan is remarkable. Many years ago and ship maintenance work.
In name only? aye!
I’d buy their stealth frigates off the shelf
My first ship a Forrest Sherman class destroyer was built in a US Naval Shipyard. I realize we aren’t going back there. But shipbuilding and repair is a core industrial base requirement.
I completely agree but we don’t have the capacity at the moment to build or repair our ships and IMO we don’t have the decade(s) to get the capacity up and running and then start building the ships.
We need VLS in bulk …we could create missle boats (glorified barges) in the ilk of the loyal wingman that use targeting from a high end ship or modify Ohio class boats 1:1 as Columbia class ships are launched (although I don’t know if that is practical from a refueling perspective)
I’m sure that Japan, Korea and the Philippines will only charge the USA an extra 25% tarriff to build them.
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Unless the Iowa Class 16in guns can magically shoot 500 to 1000 miles that wouldn’t help much in the pacific
I just got done reading your link and all the other embedded links to bring me somewhat up to speed with what NAVSEA is currently doing. Not only do we have a new construction incomplete design issue continuing, but simply executing depot level maintenance (non nuclear related) remains problematic. I pulled this from the article as a salient point.
“I think we have the same issues as pretty much everyone else in the American shipbuilding industry. We would certainly like more workers. We would certainly like more workers in the steel trades. There’s a nationwide shortage on welders, shipfitters, [and] to a lesser degree, electricians.”
There ought to be Hyman Von Rickover Jr out there to be given the whole authority to make things right at NAVSEA.
We spent a generation or two convincing people that it was more important to get a bachelor’s degree, even if it was in basket weaving or organic artisan horticulture, than to consider the trades. What did we expect would happen?