The 95,000-Ton Elephant In The Room -- DoD BuzzHas the Obama administration put the Navy’s future aircraft carriers on Washington’s proverbial “table” as part of the high-stakes, long-term budget negotiations?
“Your guess on that is as good as mine,” said Virginia Rep. Randy Forbes, the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee’s readiness subcommittee. But Forbes warns that where there’s smoke, there could be fire: “We know that there have been these rumors circulating out there, which they didn’t deny, and they told us they’re going to give us confirmation on that. They’ve already stretched the carrier build time to five years, so they could stretch it to seven years, or they may be thinking of doing away with one of the carriers altogether … Nobody came back and said, ‘oh we’re not going to do that unless we do a threat assessment’ — it sounded to me like an acknowledgement that, yep, we can put that on the table.”
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More News On Rumors that The U.S. Navy Will Lose An Aircraft Carrier In Their Fleet
Budget Concerns Put Carriers In Crosshairs -- Aviation Week
Rep. Forbes: Navy may nix one aircraft carrier and delay another -- The Hill
Pentagon May Change Carrier and SSBN(X) Plans -- Aviation Week
Navy considering delay of John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier purchase -- Daily Press
Navy could face $10 billion in budget cuts -- The Hill
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