The idea is what level of ship building is possible if a country prioritizes it by building the relevant workforce and industrial policy. Cursory research sugge

The idea is what level of ship building is possible if a country prioritizes it by building the relevant workforce and industrial policy. Cursory research suggest US and SKR both ~120k employment... which kind of makes disparity even more ridiculous. Almost unbelievable, I'll have to check numbers again when I have time. Otherwise my understanding is US shipbuilding incompetence is labour - attrition rate at 20-30%, can't develop mature workforce if turnover every 3 years. Because work conditions shit and pay comparable to fast food and retail. IIRC result is a ddg that should take 6 years to build is taking 9 because constant retraining and reworking. There's actually plenty of orders / backlog, but the workforce conditions sucks.