Modly: Navy Current Warship Mix Is Not Optimal for Future Fight
By: Megan Eckstein
October 28, 2019 3:05 PM
ARLINGTON, Va. – The Navy has concentrated more capability – and therefore more cost – onto a smaller number of ships, and that force design may not work well in a high-end fight against a peer adversary, the under secretary of the Navy said last week.
Thomas Modly, the number-two civilian leader of the Navy and Marine Corps and a former Navy officer who served in the 1980s, said a lot has changed between the fleet he knew during the last major naval buildup and the one he sees now during an ongoing effort to reach the 355 ships called for in legislation.
The fleet now is about half the size it was then, but the average cost per ship is double.
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