"US: "Shipbuilding is a Priority"" Topic

Interview with Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

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Well… a navy without ships is like an air force without planes or an army without APC's and tanks.

Of course they'll tell him that, while quietly torpedoing his programs.

Had to laugh about his "quality" comments.

Apparently, he's falling for the marketing hype, and hasn't heard or read the reports of new vessels being delivered with rusty holes in them, that let the water pour in.

> and hasn't heard or read the reports of new vessels being delivered with rusty holes in them, that let the water pour in.

Such reports that anyone outside the military reads has to be looked at with a jaundiced eye (along with those that praise such systems). One side will say anything to make the ships look bad and the other will say anything to make them look good.

I seem to recall photos from the inside of the vessel, along with the news article, about the brand new LCS. You could see daylight through the hole, where one shouldn't have been, along with the requisite rust around the opening.

It was a rather ragged, and irregularly shaped, rectangular opening.

Apparently, the crew were more than a bit worried about how much sea water might flow in, during heavy seas.

Of course shipbuilding is a priority. That's a monster federal jobs program, and certain skills are highly fragile (like welding submarine hull steel).