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It seems likely that most of the cost difference comes down to the US ships being built at shipyards that specialize at working with the US Navy and the others
by maxerickson 3y ago
It seems likely that most of the cost difference comes down to the US ships being built at shipyards that specialize at working with the US Navy and the others being built at shipyards that mostly competitively build commercial vessels.
- adastra22 3y agoA lot of the costs involved are in infrastructure and the running a maintenance of that infrastructure, which is the same regardless of whether you are building two ships every 10 years, or 200.
- ehnto 3y agoThat sounds right to me, a lack of competition and low supply of skills and infrastructure brings costs up. Bit of a chicken and egg problem though, if you don't manufacture locally because of cost you'll never build up a competitive industry that brings the cost down.