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2022-08-31 -Land of the Free

CNO Says Once Greatest Seapower Nation In History Cannot Build Three Destroyers A Year

[USNInews]

The biggest barrier to adding more ships to the Navy is industrial base capacity, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said Thursday.The service’s top officer said shipbuilders need indicators from the service before they’re able to make the investments required to build, for example, three destroyers per year.

"We have an industrial capacity that’s limited. In other words, we can only get so many ships off the production line a year. My goal would be to optimize those production lines for destroyers, for frigates, for amphibious ships, for the light amphibious ships, for supply ships," Gilday said at a Heritage Foundation event.

"We need to give a signal to industry that we need to get to three destroyers a year, instead of 1.5, that we need to maintain two submarines a year. And so part of this is on us to give them a clear set of — a clear aim point so they can plan a work force and infrastructure that’s going to be able to meet the demand. But again, no industry is going to make those kinds of investments unless we give them a higher degree of confidence."

Asked by USNI News after the event if the reason the Navy isn’t ready to send that signal to industry is because of funding, Gilday said, "it depends on the class of ships. Sometimes it’s affordability. Sometimes it’s industrial capacity."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 80 years ago we could build a Liberty ship in 6 weeks and had were launching at a rate of 2 per day. I think it was Admiral Raeder who said in 1943 that he knew the war was lost because Anerica was building ships faster than Germany could build torpedoes.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-08-31 00:44|| 2022-08-31 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^^ I enjoy your direction & thinking friend, but the USA military has a 1930s frame of mind. The world can be crippled by cyber, not guns, bombs, attacks (didn't you learn anything from Afghanistan, and Iraq?) -- drones, small EMPs and "natural petulance" they rule the world/ not big boats

Posted by Oscar B. Hayes9704 2022-08-31 03:03|| 2022-08-31 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Liberty ships were crap ships slapped together quickly and even more quickly scrapped the moment the war was over.

Today's Navy ships are handcrafted, gold-plated monuments to the military-industrial complex's love of itself. They cost billions and take years to construct, and that's the way they like it. Ever notice that America has deindustrialized - except for weapons? We still export those everywhere.

Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-08-31 03:14|| 2022-08-31 03:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Gotta love that "service economy" shtick.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-31 09:31|| 2022-08-31 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Unspoken: even a victorious war against a peer opponent could leave the USN crippled for decades.

And Glenmore - the record for a Liberty ship was 4 days, 15 1/2 hours. We couldn't do that again if our lives depended on it.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-08-31 10:45|| 2022-08-31 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 LST-325 video.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-31 10:47|| 2022-08-31 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 How China Could Become a Naval Superpower: 6 Aircraft Carriers

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-31 10:56|| 2022-08-31 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Not sure whether they can staff additional ships with recruiting being in the toilet.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-31 12:35|| 2022-08-31 12:35|| Front Page Top

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