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2025-07-08 Science & Technology

Navy's carrier fleet faces temporary reduction through 2027 as new ships hit development snags

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-08 05:21|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [139 views ] Top

#1 Doublespeak.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-08 11:04|| 2025-07-08 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 delays in material availability and industry/supply chain performance

Biden planners did not expect to have to participate in P.Trump's world.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-08 11:16|| 2025-07-08 11:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Giant targets.

Drones are clearly the future.
But we are ruled by the military-industrial complex that starts wars to make money for themselves.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-08 15:11|| 2025-07-08 15:11|| Front Page Top

#4 The only "drones" capable of reaching a CVN mid-ocean are (1) ballistic missiles, and (2) cruise missles.

Which are already accounted for (tho not in the realistic numbers they will be used in).

Posted by Black Adder 2025-07-08 16:51|| 2025-07-08 16:51|| Front Page Top

#5 ...They will be lucky to see JFK completed and worked up for her first deployment by 2028.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-07-08 17:27|| 2025-07-08 17:27|| Front Page Top

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