[Lower Deck]

Buying Russian surplus, I presume.

New builds. I don't know what "certain places" means since there aren't many places outside the U.S. with experience building them. A couple of Canadian yards, Finland, Russia, and that's about it.

[babble-on]

But what about American jobs? What about companies outsourcing production being evil?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think ice breakers could be built in a Great Lakes ship yard...