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This is also why US shipbuilding is a dumpster fire: lack of a consistent order book for warships means they're more expensive to produce and the process is cha
by XorNot 1y ago
This is also why US shipbuilding is a dumpster fire: lack of a consistent order book for warships means they're more expensive to produce and the process is chaotic.
It's one of the great reasons to cultivate a collection of close allies who you support: it keeps your production lines warm and your workforce active and developing.
- aDyslecticCrow 1y agoIt would help if there was a active civilian shipbuilding industry. Easier to pivot than building up something from nothing. But that industry has been taken over by asia.
- bluedino 1y ago> But that industry has been taken over by asia. There aren't many that haven't been.
- kulahan 1y agoI hadn’t considered this - it must be a nightmare to try and find experienced aircraft carrier engineers. We have like 14 of em, right? Probably like 70% the same crew on each one, but I don’t remember the last time we built one. I wonder if the expertise is still there, and maybe I’m just missing these stories.
- renewiltord 1y agoThe last time we built aircraft carriers in the US? Has there ever been a one year period when we haven't been building aircraft carriers (or ships which other nations would consider carriers)? Certainly there are many we're currently building and many we will build after that. Biggest in the world kind of stuff. Gerald R Ford class.
- hollerith 1y agoDitto destroyers, which the US has been building continuously going back at least to 1988 according the dates in this table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arleigh_Burke-class_destroyers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arleigh_Burke-class_de...
- kulahan 1y agoTIL! I guess I just haven't been following this stuff. Now I've got something to read about all night, thanks!