To: Yo-Yo
Perhaps a backdoor payoff to NG for cancelling the KC-X contract? Northrop-Grumman runs Newport News, Avondale (LA) and Ingalls (Pascagoula, MS) shipyards. Is there really any competition? I can't recall the last carrier that wasn't built by NN.
8 posted on
09/12/2008 6:39:40 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Charles Martel
Northrop-Grumman runs Newport News, Avondale (LA) and Ingalls (Pascagoula, MS) shipyards. Is there really any competition? I can't recall the last carrier that wasn't built by NN. Constellation (CV-64), I think, launched in 1960.
15 posted on
09/12/2008 6:54:30 AM PDT by
hc87
To: Charles Martel
Newport News is the only U.S. shipyard with the facilities to build a modern nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. That’s been true for almost 50 years. I think the last aircraft carrier built elsewhere was the Constellation.
To: Charles Martel
Northrop-Grumman runs Newport News, Avondale (LA) and Ingalls (Pascagoula, MS) shipyards. Is there really any competition? I can't recall the last carrier that wasn't built by NN. NG is the only game in town to build carriers. I was referring to the "cost plus" structure of the contract, so that no matter how many cost overruns there are, NG still makes a profit.
33 posted on
09/12/2008 7:52:41 AM PDT by
Yo-Yo
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