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Congressional Commission Calls for Third Nuclear Shipyard to Bolster U.S. Strategic Forces
USNI ^ | 10/12/23 | Mallory Shelbourne

Posted on 10/16/2023 3:17:17 AM PDT by hardspunned

The Pentagon needs a third shipyard that can build nuclear-powered ships so the U.S. can keep pace with China and Russia’s nuclear modernization, a congressional commission said in a new report published Thursday.

A third private shipyard would expand industry’s capacity to build nuclear-powered submarines, therefore bolstering U.S. strategic forces, according to the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.

The commission suggests the Pentagon “increase shipbuilding capacity, by working with industry to establish or renovate a third shipyard dedicated to production of nuclear-powered vessels, with particular emphasis on nuclear-powered submarines,” according to the report.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: dod; nuclearsubmarines; shipbuilding; ships; shipyards; submarines; usn
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As I’ve said from April ‘22 on, we have been blundered into a new multi trillion dollar, generational Cold War. Here we go. I would not be surprised to see that rat fink Milley sitting on General Dynamics board after his book payoff tour.
1 posted on 10/16/2023 3:17:17 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

So much for Clinton’s Peace Dividend.


2 posted on 10/16/2023 3:20:46 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

With Uniparty leadership doing everything possible to pick world wars with both China and Russia not to mention pushing a regional war in the ME, US defense industry needs to go 1943 on the rest of the world.


3 posted on 10/16/2023 3:32:46 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: hardspunned

So you don’t think that the U.S. needs more naval shipyards after 3 decades of BRAC?


4 posted on 10/16/2023 3:38:07 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: hardspunned

With both China and Russia producing hypersonic missiles we had better get on the ball and soon. Submarines, not just the big boomers but all subs, are going to be critical in the future and are good platforms for special operations and deployment of drones. The more capable we are in this kind of pinpoint work, the less likely it will be for things to blow up into major conflicts.


5 posted on 10/16/2023 3:40:37 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: hardspunned

...even though these criminal politicians have already put the country $33 trillion in debt and counting.


6 posted on 10/16/2023 3:42:05 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: hardspunned; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; Karliner; RoosterRedux; skr; Big Red Badger; ...
As I’ve said from April ‘22 on, we have been blundered into a new multi trillion dollar, generational Cold War. Here we go. I would not be surprised to see that rat fink Milley sitting on General Dynamics board after his book payoff tour.

The cold war began about 80 years ago. In order to shorten a war, the US helped Russia so much that it became an advancing army which conquered Berlin before the other allies arrived, and at the time had extensive network of spies in America and DC, soon had The Bomb. Since then we have been fighting proxy wars with Russia, as it the case now.

As the need for a shipyard, well, the reality is that Today, Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of HII, is the nation's sole designer, builder and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two shipyards capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines. - https://hii.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Fact-File-NNS-May-2023.pdf

However, the West itself is also at war with God, one it cannot win, and partly in order to get votes, it has largely transferred its vast manufacturing capacity to China, which along is able to sustain a prolonged war.

China has built a capacity to sustain a protracted war of any type. More directly, China is well-postured to sustain a protracted high intensity war of attrition. The United States is not currently capable of doing so. - T2023 THE DANGERS OF A PROTRACTED WAR WITH CHINA War Room - U.S. Army War College - https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/stubborn-things/

1. A nation can overcome adversity, and affliction, but none I know overcame great prosperity in its various earthly forms. Rare is the person who gains the latter and does not lose spiritual and moral Christian values. Yet God requires us to overcome what takes away faith.

“Religion begat prosperity and the daughter devoured the mother.” - Attributed to Cotton Mather alarmed by the trend toward materialism in New England Society
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart. (Hosea 4:11)

2. As American increasingly became post-Christian, so it increasingly becomes anti-Christian, adopting the demonic perversions of all the God ordained. As we sadly see daily and more so.

They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. (Hosea 8:4)
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. (Hosea 8:12)
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. (Hosea 8:3)
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (Hosea 8:14)
Every generation since perhaps 1950 has been the most Biblically ignorant, morally confused and mislead generation America has ever raised, with each other surpassing the previous one. Now we are seeing the 3rd generation in the voting booth since so-called "the greatest generation."

3. One of those is contraception, which goes with abortion. Without these two practices alone and the welfare which fosters broken homes, there could be a partial social revolution, of actual families of more than 1.6 children if at all, and learning to share, tolerate, interact, endure difficulties, build character, initiative. etc.

4. The growth of secular, anti-Christ media. Never before has there been a media so pervasive, perverted and persuasive since perhaps Pompeii, though we do have sane as well as sacred alternatives, thank God.

7 posted on 10/16/2023 3:43:34 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Timber Rattler

I stand by my statement. The Uniparty warmongers have warmongered us into such a dangerous position that we need “go 1943” on defense spending, 40% of GDP. Anything less will leave us at risk in your brave new globalist/neocon world. Of course, the other option is to vote your globalist/neocon fellow travelers out.


8 posted on 10/16/2023 3:45:51 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: daniel1212

That Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union thirty years ago. You’ll need to attempt to peddle your revisionist BS elsewhere.


9 posted on 10/16/2023 3:51:44 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Timber Rattler
The U.S. spends more on “defense” every year than the next 12 countries in the world combined. And for many of those 12 countries, their defense budgets include huge allocations to buy U.S.-made military hardware.

You’d have a hard time convincing me this country needs even two naval shipyards to produce nuclear-powered ships, let alone three.

10 posted on 10/16/2023 3:58:44 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: piasa
The immediate problem for the USN is that we lack adequate capacity to repair, overhaul, refuel, and update the existing nuclear sub fleet. Moreover, the new Columbia class replacement for our aging Ohio subs is beginning to be constructed, which further strains our shipyards and industrial base.
11 posted on 10/16/2023 4:06:23 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Pontiac

We’ve had two republicans since then. No changes since Clinton?


12 posted on 10/16/2023 4:27:38 AM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Alberta's Child
You’d have a hard time convincing me this country needs even two naval shipyards to produce nuclear-powered ships, let alone three.

That's a pretty ignorant statement. No naval shipyards, and no U.S. Navy.

Guess how many shipyards the ChiComs have?

US can’t keep up with China’s warship building, Navy Secretary says

13 posted on 10/16/2023 4:42:34 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Alberta's Child
You’d have a hard time convincing me this country needs even two naval shipyards to produce nuclear-powered ships, let alone three.

That's a pretty ignorant statement. No naval shipyards, and no U.S. Navy.

Guess how many shipyards the ChiComs have?

US can’t keep up with China’s warship building, Navy Secretary says

14 posted on 10/16/2023 4:42:34 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Timber Rattler
Did I say NO shipyards?

And don’t bother quoting the U.S. Navy Secretary here. He has no more credibility than a CDC or FDA director claiming that everyone should get a COVID vaccine and a weekly booster.

The dude in that position already has his post-government career at Huntington Ingalls, NASSCO or Lockheed Martin lined up.

15 posted on 10/16/2023 4:53:50 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: hardspunned

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La), Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev..), and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) What did you expect?

US Senators Take Shelter In Israel As the Country Delays Their Ground Invasion of Gaza

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/10/15/us-senators-take-shelter-in-israel-n2629863


16 posted on 10/16/2023 5:07:29 AM PDT by GailA (GMOs have a new name 'BIOENGINEERED' read labels. Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: hardspunned

20 years to build it?


17 posted on 10/16/2023 5:14:39 AM PDT by dynachrome (War does not determine who is right, but who is left.)
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To: daniel1212
Genesis 18:25-26

25 Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
26 So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”


So far - so good.

18 posted on 10/16/2023 5:49:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: napscoordinator

Nope

And we haven’t had peace since then either.


19 posted on 10/16/2023 5:53:48 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: hardspunned

That probably won’t happen since it will take money away from supporting all the illegal aliens that Joe Birdbrain has allowed in.


20 posted on 10/16/2023 6:13:28 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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