Arming Icebreakers
By Andreas Kuersten
August 27, 2017
Icebreakers ply polar waters, smashing open sea lanes with their heavily armored bows. Yet in addition to being equipped to do battle with the elements, should they be outfitted to take on enemy forces? Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), believes that they should. “We need to look differently … at what an icebreaker does,” he said at a recent hearing before the House Appropriations Subcommittee, “We need to reserve space, weight, and power if we need to strap a cruise missile package on it.”
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