Surface Ships Need More Offensive Punch, Outlook

I suspect it will be the usual process of declaring a problem, pretending to fix it, and moving on regardless. But perhaps something more concrete will happen.
 
Not military shipbuilding, but has possibilities in that regard:
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CMA CGM Considering Building Containerships in U.S., CEO Says

CMA CGM is in talks with shipyards about the possibility of having medium-sized container vessels built in the United States, the French shipping group's CEO Rodolphe Saade told Les Echos newspaper.
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Josh_TN said:
I suspect it will be the usual process of declaring a problem, pretending to fix it, and moving on regardless. But perhaps something more concrete will happen.
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Given other statements on the matter and Trump being a businessman first instead of a politician, I think he intends to actually make efforts to fix things.
 
Scott Kenny said:
Given other statements on the matter and Trump being a businessman first instead of a politician, I think he intends to actually make efforts to fix things.
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Trump is not a businessman; he’s a showman. He is very successful at that, with most of his money coming from The Apprentice and the licensing of his name. His actual business record is atrocious and historically his political attention span exceedingly limited. I very much doubt any of his changes fix anything, especially something as complex and long term as US ship production. We shall see. Currently DOGE cannot make it through a week without reversing itself and every part of the economy is flashing warning signs, so color me skeptical than ship production increases in the next four years.
 
Josh_TN said:
Trump is not a businessman; he’s a showman. He is very successful at that, with most of his money coming from The Apprentice and the licensing of his name. His actual business record is atrocious and historically his political attention span exceedingly limited. I very much doubt any of his changes fix anything, especially something as complex and long term as US ship production. We shall see. Currently DOGE cannot make it through a week without reversing itself and every part of the economy is flashing warning signs, so color me skeptical than ship production increases in the next four years.
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Military ship production, especially submarines, requires clearing and hiring nuclear welders.

That's just flat time consuming to do. My clearance took over a year to finalize, for example, and I was a relatively straight-forward example.

I would not expect to even see a real effect on production for at least 2 years. By which I mean being able to deliver 2x Virginia-class per year.
 
And that's several months old (the news that is) at this point. Don't know if it's anywhere else here but that should be a giant red flag. They aren't going to Japan with that.
 

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