House sinks submarine proposal, OKs Pentagon spending bill with dual-carrier buy

[rangerrebew]

House sinks submarine proposal, OKs Pentagon spending bill with dual-carrier buy
By: Joe Gould   
 

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed its chamber’s version of the annual defense appropriations bill with a plans to buy two aircraft carriers at a time but without a proposal to buy two more submarines.

In a 359-49 vote, House members approved a $675 billion Defense Department appropriations bill that would fund 93 F-35 fighter jets (four more than Senate appropriators are seeking), three littoral combat ships (to the Senate’s two) and the Advanced Battle Management System, which would replace the JSTARS recapitalization plan that the U.S. Air Force wants to kill.

https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2018/06/28/house-oks-pentagon-spending-bill-with-dual-carrier-buy-sinks-submarine-proposal/

[rangerrebew]

As a Navy Veteran who served on a carrier for over 3 years, it hurts me to say it but carriers have gone the way of the battleship.  With satellite technology ships can't be hidden - unless they are under water, like submarines.