Navy releases long-range shipbuilding plan that drops emphasis on 355 ships, lays out fleet design p

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Navy releases long-range shipbuilding plan that drops emphasis on 355 ships, lays out fleet design priorities
By: Megan Eckstein   1 day ago
 

WASHINGTON – The Navy submitted an update to Congress to its annual long-range shipbuilding plans, one that takes a step back from the much-talked-about standard of a 355-ship fleet and instead lays out priorities for a future distributed naval force.

The new document lays out a manned fleet as low as 321 manned ships and potentially as large as 372 manned ships.

A fleet of 321 manned ships would be a departure from past modeling, wargaming and analysis that pointed to a fleet of 355 or more manned ships to counter threats from China and Russia in a future fight. The lower number, though, is more in line with current fiscal constraints and industry capacity. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said this week that, “based on the top-line that we have, that we can afford a Navy of about 300 ships” – and there’s not much hope that Navy shipbuilding budgets will increase drastically in the next few years.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/06/17/navy-releases-long-range-shipbuilding-plan-that-drops-emphasis-on-355-ships-lays-out-fleet-design-priorities/

[rangerrebew]

This is scary!  The people who build the ships and people who oversee the construction haven' had a stellar success rate in the past 20 years or so.  In fact, you could say they have been downright pitiful.

[Fishrrman]

If things keep goin' the way they're goin' under communist rule, in 20-25 years, our Navy will be comparable in size to that of Canada's...