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2022-08-31 -Land of the Free

CNO Says Once Greatest Seapower Nation In History Cannot Build Three Destroyers A Year

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-08-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 80 years ago we could build a Liberty ship in 6 weeks and had were launching at a rate of 2 per day. I think it was Admiral Raeder who said in 1943 that he knew the war was lost because Anerica was building ships faster than Germany could build torpedoes.

Posted by Glenmore 2022-08-31 00:44|| 2022-08-31 00:44|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^^ I enjoy your direction & thinking friend, but the USA military has a 1930s frame of mind. The world can be crippled by cyber, not guns, bombs, attacks (didn't you learn anything from Afghanistan, and Iraq?) -- drones, small EMPs and "natural petulance" they rule the world/ not big boats

Posted by Oscar B. Hayes9704 2022-08-31 03:03|| 2022-08-31 03:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Liberty ships were crap ships slapped together quickly and even more quickly scrapped the moment the war was over.

Today's Navy ships are handcrafted, gold-plated monuments to the military-industrial complex's love of itself. They cost billions and take years to construct, and that's the way they like it. Ever notice that America has deindustrialized - except for weapons? We still export those everywhere.

Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-08-31 03:14|| 2022-08-31 03:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Gotta love that "service economy" shtick.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-08-31 09:31|| 2022-08-31 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 ...Unspoken: even a victorious war against a peer opponent could leave the USN crippled for decades.

And Glenmore - the record for a Liberty ship was 4 days, 15 1/2 hours. We couldn't do that again if our lives depended on it.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-08-31 10:45|| 2022-08-31 10:45|| Front Page Top

#6 LST-325 video.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-08-31 10:47|| 2022-08-31 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 How China Could Become a Naval Superpower: 6 Aircraft Carriers

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-31 10:56|| 2022-08-31 10:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Not sure whether they can staff additional ships with recruiting being in the toilet.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-31 12:35|| 2022-08-31 12:35|| Front Page Top

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