Our Navy's Stupid Mistakes

This is the problem today, it’s not the Navy but rather Congress and their pet projects. This is how we ended up with POS LCS ships, the Zumwalts and billions literally thrown away trying to modernize old cruisers that will never deploy. All driven by Congress. They’re and endless more examples like this in all areas of Defense.

And the US is still thin on oilers.
Pearl oil storage is gone also.
Our stateside reserves were used up this last fall.

When it gets hot, a surface fleet can not do much without fuel and supplies.

Hummmm.
I think I understand.
AND agree.

Future needs depends how far out you are looking. I think it is conceivable that someday war ships may be obsolete entirely. There are many published articles arguing the era of the aircraft carrier being the centerpiece is limited. Without getting into those debates, I think the near-term needs are not being supported by our dwindling fleet size. This is supported by the increasing deployment durations and cycles today. The demand signal is grater than our current fleet can sustainably support. We have lost too may proven vessels and replaced them with the crap we've talked about earlier in the thread. We need more capable platforms. I believe the future Constellation Frigate class will be a much needed and capable addition. They should have been building these in lieu of LCS all along. Our current DDG's remain the workhorse of the fleet and will continue in that role for quite some time.

Correctly, the smart plan would not bring the ole monsters back.
I'm with ya Bro..
I'm not sure any flat top would survive any first offensive either.

But before any fire-crackers go off, Would it not be smarter to remove the common denominator?
Why TF tension is high @ west pacific rim..

Remember; What do you want to do during any hostage situation??
Remove the most common denominators,, The hostage..

Why does everybody have this hard on to build 80% of the worlds micro chips in Taiwan??
Move the chip mfg out, China would not care less about another dependent & outcast island then.
Boats and other junk is already built on the mainland.

OR, build the same chips somewhere else. But remove what ComChi wants.

Taiwan is targeted this year.
Or soon after.
The Zum-wad project is still years off from becoming operational (if the boat survives that freaking long) with the hyper plugs.
Naw, were fraked on the west pacific rim.