USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires an SM-2 missile.
USNI News: Analyst Says Pentagon ‘Walked Away From the 500-ship Navy’
The Navy’s modest shipbuilding request as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 budget shows the Pentagon has “walked away from the 500-ship Navy,” a senior defense analyst said Tuesday.
The Fiscal Year 2022 shipbuilding request is seeking $22.6 billion, a 3 percent drop from Fiscal Year’s 2021 shipbuilding total.
The move from the Pentagon shows the department has walked away from the Trump administration’s plan for an expanded Navy, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Ferrari, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said on Tuesday.
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2 comments:
We don't need a 500 ship Navy. We need a 1 Million-count guided missile, global, omnipresent, surefire, 24/7/365, strike capability. Within 3 hours
UFO'S,
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Well, quality is important, but quantity has its own qualities. ( well, I know I am quoting Stalin, I don't like, but for the T-34 against the Panzer II he was right.)
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