Posted on 10/28/2018 2:03:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Link only due to copyright issues: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/10/26/move-over-355-ship-navy-report-from-trumps-favorite-think-tank-calls-for-an-even-larger-fleet/
Link to article: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/10/26/move-over-355-ship-navy-report-from-trumps-favorite-think-tank-calls-for-an-even-larger-fleet/
I’m not opposed.
But they really need to figure a better way to handle Acquisitions. Because the way we do it now, it will take 20 years to get a ship in the water, some of the technology won’t work, some of the technology will be old, and each ship will cost $5B and we will be afraid to use it because, hey, who wants to lose a $5B ship in some risky environment???
Acquisitions in DoD is badly broken. It’s slow, it’s expensive, and it’s tied to a sclerotic bureaucracy.
Reagan had a 600 ship fleet. This report calls for 400.
Can any of this navy be parked by the southern border to stop the invasion? No...
And they’re still pushing for those Littoral Combat Ships...
Not really going to need a navy if we don’t have a country.......
Not quite. The treason party opposed him every step, and the Navy never got to 600 ships.
Of course not. Don't be silly. The Army and Air Force need to be built back up as well.
Forgive me if I am wrong on this.
MUI Navy vessels are really expensive, well-armed, wonderfully staffed floating targets.
The new measures of combat power are less fleet size than the type and number of missiles carried, sensors and communications, defensive weapons that can defeat incoming missiles, damage resistance and control, and the time on station that can be sustained. The new plan wisely puts considerable emphasis on logistics and support vessels, a major weakness in the composition of the current fleet.
In addition, if the concept of distributed lethality is implemented, most of those support vessels will have firepower of their own that adds to the US Navy's striking power and complicates life for our adversaries. It sounds like a good plan.
Over the last three decades, 40 million invaders have penetrated our southern border. They’ve now colonized, and are “fundamentally transforming” our country from within.
I’d rather see the DOD invest in boxcars and cattle prods.
Really? The Marines test nonlethal weapons for crowd control and half of FR gets the vapors that conservatives are about to be rounded up.
Bigger navy. That’s always a good idea. :-)
Reagan got close, the US Navy hit 594 ships/subs at its peak in 1987. Just six ships short of the 600 ship goal before the post Cold War draw down.
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True enough, but the goal had become obsolete for the reasons mentioned. The late era Soviet Navy lacked precision weapons and lacked the funds for routine maintenance and operations at sea. Six hundred ships were not needed to counter an adversary that had become little more than uncrewed obsolete rusting hulks in danger of sinking while at anchor.
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