Agreed.
This is what happens when you train most American youth to become social-media influencers, financial traders, leftist political activists or self-absorbed sexual deviants.
Kudos.
Correct beyond correct! Our nice Democrats and RINOs -- think Uranium One as one among too many examples -- have managed to construct the "supply" to our productive companies offshore. Short sighted, but highly profitable for the few and well-connected.
Inflation you say?
I just went to purchase my flu cocktail of daytime flu med, Tussin and throat spray.
$55 bucks.
Eff it. I bought the daytime cold&flu, and cough drops and a tiny bottle of generic aspirin $27!!!!!!!!!!
I will say I was at CVS so I will be stopping at Walmart on the way home for a better deal
Still....
They have a program just to recruit sub builders so they must have screwed that up too
We are so unready to face mobilization to get on war footing right now. We cannot mobilize the industrial base, we cannot assure the reliability of the supply chains, there is no ready work force or technical personnel to step in and keep the machinery working, and worst of all, there is no will or authorization from the government to do diddly to overcome these limitations.
The “new residents” pouring over the southern (and now Canadian) border bring none of these skills or support for reconstruction of the infrastructure needed.
We are so screwed.
That’s because our industrial manufacturing and resource base is GONE. Whether its the steel ore and smelting, sophisticated electronic chip resourcing and production, or even competent manpower. Gone. Democrats did that.
Yeah, the government buyers assume the industry has the resources to sit around and wait for the next government job, despite not having any civilian work because the industry was sent overseas.
On increasing trend I witness is government sending out a Request For Proposals and getting zero responses. They were warned about the DIE, Affirmative Discrimination, and tranny nonsense and now companies are walking away.
The Bath, Maine shipyard got their cranes and drydocks from . . .
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China
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I could see fleets of drone submarines of various sizes capable of launching torpedoes, cruise missiles, etc. that would make surface ships obsolete.
Times change and it seems to me that aircraft carriers are increasingly vulnerable, which reduces their utility. We have 11 in active service already. Plus we have 2 America-class Amphibious Assault Ships and 7 Wasp-class Amphibious Assault Ships, all of which are more or less small aircraft carriers. I wonder if in this age of unmanned aircraft, drones and missiles we ought not transition away from our Navy being organized around these behemoths. Such as perhaps use the same money to build more submarines and scale up our missile and drone production (because as we see in Ukraine, it’s possible to burn thorugh a lot of these things awfully quickly and the US industrial base is not well-suited to quickly ramp up production after a war breaks out). These are just questions in my mind. What do our Freeper naval experts think?
BTW, the new Ford-class carriers are said to cost $13 billion a pop. Add in the cost of the air wing and escort ships and you could actually build The Wall for less than the cost of one carrier. Personally, I think that spending so much on the ‘forward defense’ capabilities that aircraft carriers provide makes very little sense when millions of invaders are streaming across the border with Mexico. Right now, we need border defense a lot more that we need the capability to intervene in foreign wars.
Did the DoD ever fix their imported zipper supply problem?
12 already built and maintained CSGs are not enough? They are very large targets, bluntly speaking. Better money spent on the new generation nuclear attack and missile submarines- properly staffed by nail chewing deadly US Navy war fighters. Not modern woke morons who have zero skillsets.
When will our carriers, and the carriers from other nations go the way of BattleShips?
It seems they plan to fix the problem by "off-shoring" the work force as well.. The Gen Z's & Y's won't swat at a fly, so I guess we're are like the Saudis now. If it's going to get done, we'll need to hire a foreigner to do it..
I wonder how many carriers we could have built from the steel we had to use building that Wetback Wall?
IF they can even find material. I have a tiny machine and fab shop and can hardly find the aluminum alloys I need. And when I can it is about 7 times what it was pre chomo Joe.
BUT, as we all know, hiring trannies and unqualified “marginalized peoples” will fix this all.
Perhaps a specially designed drone carrier can fill our carrier needs?
I saw the last word “survey” as “scurvey”. I thought well let’s put some OJ on the flight deck!