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No doubt the state of the United States Navy and its disastrous attempts to modernize over the last few decades which will leave it woefully underprepared for a peer or near-peer conflict because we don’t have numbers or small surface warships
Things are so awful it’s hard to keep up and I genuinely have no idea what horrible thing this person is referring to
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Anonymous 4w

Probably shouldn’t have scrapped/sold all those OHPs before replacements were in hand

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Anonymous 4w

dawg we have the best navy in the world wym 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

Constellation class, littoral combat ship, Zumwalt destroyer… all three failed modernization attempts. We are running destroyers designed in the late Cold War that do not have the space or power plant capacity for modern warfare. The DDG(X) program may have its funding pulled for trumps fuckass battleship. Our shipbuilding industry is so withered and decayed it’s not even funny. If you look into it, things are bad. Naval buildups occur over decades and we have continuously failed at modernizing

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

so wildly wrong

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

I’m pretty sure OP is spot on, all the most recent new ships designed with radical new technology have failed miserably so now we’re returning to ancient designs and even retrofitting coast guard vessels as navy ships just so we have boats on the water at all.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

A google search and reading like 2 articles will give you a glimpse of how bad things really are

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

And nevermind the resources currently being expended due to Iran right now and how those will affect long-term preparedness

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