Posted on Apr 30, 2022
US Navy envisions larger fleet despite long-range plans reflecting budget crunch
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US Navy envisions larger fleet despite long-range plans reflecting budget crunch
By Megan Eckstein
Apr 29, 12:40 PM
People look through binoculars at the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush, anchored off the coast in 2017 at Portsmouth, England. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday mused about a day when the U.S. Navy might be able to buy a dozen or more ships each year. The Navy would be given the funding levels, and the surface ship industrial base would have grown the capacity, to support building three destroyers a year, two or three frigates a year, an amphibious transport dock every other year, and a larger number of supply ships.
But as he made clear in his remarks this week, that day is not today.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones Sgt (Join to see) 1SG Dan Capri SGT Steve McFarland SrA John Monette SFC Bernard Walko GySgt Jack Wallace SPC Michael Terrell SMSgt Anil Heendeniya CPL Patrick Rasmussen CPL Douglas Chrysler
US Navy envisions larger fleet despite long-range plans reflecting budget crunch
By Megan Eckstein
Apr 29, 12:40 PM
People look through binoculars at the U.S. Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush, anchored off the coast in 2017 at Portsmouth, England. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday mused about a day when the U.S. Navy might be able to buy a dozen or more ships each year. The Navy would be given the funding levels, and the surface ship industrial base would have grown the capacity, to support building three destroyers a year, two or three frigates a year, an amphibious transport dock every other year, and a larger number of supply ships.
But as he made clear in his remarks this week, that day is not today.
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Lt Col Charlie Brown SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. SGT Charlie Lee PO2 Marco Monsalve SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth ] SSG William Jones Sgt (Join to see) 1SG Dan Capri SGT Steve McFarland SrA John Monette SFC Bernard Walko GySgt Jack Wallace SPC Michael Terrell SMSgt Anil Heendeniya CPL Patrick Rasmussen CPL Douglas Chrysler
US Navy envisions larger fleet despite long-range plans reflecting budget crunch
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The most recent Biden budget proposal had a 4% increase to the US Military. This is actually a net decrease thanks to the inflation caused by printing too much money. He's also allocated 15% increase to a couple different Federal departments to help with climate change. His priorities is climate change which I think is stupid considering that Russia is considering nuclear war against Finland and Sweden if they join NATO. If they didn't give those departments 15% increase, I'm sure that could helped by a few more ships but you can't argue with President Biden, climate change is the most important existential threat to him, not the Russian threat to the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/russia-says-it-will-reinforce-borders-if-sweden-and-finland-join-nato
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/russia-says-it-will-reinforce-borders-if-sweden-and-finland-join-nato
Russia warns of nuclear weapons in Baltic if Sweden and Finland join Nato
Lithuania plays down threat, claiming Russians already have such weapons in Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad
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Retiring more shioa this year than building, hard to enlarge the fleet doing that
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