Posted on 05/09/2024 4:02:38 PM PDT by hardspunned
Plagued by delays in ship repairs and outdated design practices, the US Navy faces mounting challenges in maintaining readiness and keeping pace with China’s rapid shipbuilding advancements.
This month, USNI News reported that the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that fewer than 40% of US Navy ships had completed repairs on time, despite the availability of shipyard space.
The GAO ranked shipyard conditions second only to F-35 Lightning II air fighter sustainment costs as the most problematic readiness issue facing the US armed services.
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Being a global policeman requires lots of upkeep.
Never ending funding increases for a military that is becoming less and less viable in offense and defense.
Your tax money being wasted by Democrats and Republicans to enrich contractors that deliver late and over-budget.
...and nobody cares.
Todays NAVY is much too woke to stand up to china.
Go to youtube and search for Tofu Dredge. Hundreds of videos will appear of the shoddy construction standards of China.
Fr downtown Beijing-
today’s pro China nonsense.
The Chinese are advanced ship builders!
Day 1002 of no Taiwan takeover despite being promised such dozens of times.
Day 26 still no follow up to the obv fake Irannian attack.
Week 2 no nukes that maybe were going to be launched last week.
But we have the Village People so it’s all good
Seeing as how we have gutted the “esprit de corps” of our military, one can only hope that we maintain a technical advantage.
I worry that we are sharing all of our advancements with our enemies.
We appear weak. I hope we are not.
My bad-
China is putting out 232 ships to the US 1.
I can’t even come up with something sarcastic that reaches the realms of stupidity it takes to believe the above nonsense.
But we excel in diversity!
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My Son and his Shipmates would disagree.
No. What they are saying is that China has 237 times the shipbuilding capacity of the U.S. which was intentionally deindustrialized by our garbage ruling class.
Thanks to our abysmal, feeble, and stunted industrial capacity America can no longer act as the "arsenal of f democracy." The idiots in DC have no idea that they can no longer act like the the leaders of previous generations thanks to leftist betrayal.
AI says 20 ships a year in 17yards.
Leaving the US capacity at less than one ship every ten years.
That sounds about right similar to nukes being launched in weeks sounded about right.
If Made in China is junk, that is bad news for the US military because all their Prime Constractors are dependent on Chinese component suppliers.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/raytheon-china-greg-hayes-decoupling/
Not their biggest problem. There is a leadership cancer at the top.
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