Last week, Navy officials testifying to Congress complained that fiscal 2021 plans to cut the Navy’s shipbuilding budget by $4.1 billion from 2020 was “not helpful,” noting that the cuts would sink plans to build a new submarine, cancel a $650 million America-class amphibious assault ship, and hit other ship and aircraft procurement plans. The US Navy has grown increasingly incapable of operating in extreme weather conditions since the end of the Cold War due to increasingly fragile prospective ship designs and a generation of seamen who haven’t received the same amount of poor weather training as their predecessors, Forbes defence contributor Craig Hooper has warned.
Poster Comment:
The USS Gerald Ford aircraft carrier was a disaster.