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2005-06-24 Home Front: Tech

US Navy Marching to a Very Different Drummer

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-24 13:46|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Our theoretcial enemey is the combined fleets of the rest of the world excluding only the UK and OZ. It could take several weeks maybe two months to finish. And four of those weeks will be running down the Japaneese.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-24 14:39|| 2005-06-24 14:39|| Front Page Top

#2 The US Navy's primary enemies remain the US Army and US Air Force. There isn't enough money to fund all those new ships and toys, buy F22s and F35s, and still buy bullets and beans for the Army and Marines. Somebody, perhaps everybody, is going to get a lump of coal in their stockings. Watch what they do, not what they say.

Posted by RWV 2005-06-24 15:27|| 2005-06-24 15:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn of course! I don't know what came over me RWV! You're correct of course.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-24 18:00|| 2005-06-24 18:00|| Front Page Top

#4 I have become disturbed about the rosy picture painted about Naval R&D. The magazine "Proceedings", published by the US Naval Institute, though not an official publication, is the most widely read Naval journal in the world, whose articles are mostly written by senior US Navy Officers. An issue or two ago, their lead editorial, concerning procurement of new ships and technologies, began by saying "The United States and China are preparing to have a naval war. The United States will lose." The author then blamed this on combined factors in procurement and construction, mostly the cross-purpose desire to have only a relatively small number of very advanced ships, combined with no clear-cut strategy of design and construction. In this, it was pointed out that a naval construction program takes years to produce a ship, much less a fleet, and needs consistency of purpose and design lasting more than a decade. But as it is now, the US Navy has a magnificant, high-tech fleet on paper, and no real program to make it a reality. Their estimate of the loss of US Pacific naval supremacy is between the years 2010-2015.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-24 18:17|| 2005-06-24 18:17|| Front Page Top

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