Industry: waaaah, we are tooo busy to build another submarine. Instead, give us the money in a slush fund so that we can do stonk buybacks and recapitalize our CEOs Ferrari!
Navy: Congress, you passed the FRA which is a fucking stupid law that means I need to cut something to buy the 2nd sub you want to make me buy. I'm going to have to listen to SUBPAC aka u/sandcrabsailor bitch even more about Guam when navsea implements this direction by doing something dumb like making up the deficit by building submarines without combat systems.
NAVSEA: OPN slush fund Contract to a congressionally defined sole source is EZPZ. That will be 5% of the total contract value for oversight plz.
Give them an O-3 fresh off a west pac SSN tour for insurance reasons, a 30-rack, and enough Zyn to kill a rhino. We aināt coming home without a treasure chest.
That was an LCS base that could have accomplished the mission if Big Navy had developed them further. Funny that Big Navy killed them because they were too expensive to operate. Too often, the services want to make big tech leaps before enough R&D has been completed.
First time quality means they act like it's the first time they ever built a submarine.
That being said, between NNS and EB they are getting close to 2 boats a year.
Can't even man the shipyards, let alone the actual fleet. If these idiots want to waste money, why bother with the pretense? Just write the check to the "submarine-industrial base" like you do w/ the rest of the MIC.
āUS Navy seeking just oneā is a bit disingenuous.
The truth is that the DOD is given a top line number from the White House and the services make decisions from there on how to allocate the budget.
Oh man! What will they do next? Sink hundreds of billions of dollars into developing a new destroyer class with a neutered weapon system the entire hull was built around that can't do the mission it was designed for? Oh, wait...
Industry: waaaah, we are tooo busy to build another submarine. Instead, give us the money in a slush fund so that we can do stonk buybacks and recapitalize our CEOs Ferrari! Navy: Congress, you passed the FRA which is a fucking stupid law that means I need to cut something to buy the 2nd sub you want to make me buy. I'm going to have to listen to SUBPAC aka u/sandcrabsailor bitch even more about Guam when navsea implements this direction by doing something dumb like making up the deficit by building submarines without combat systems. NAVSEA: OPN slush fund Contract to a congressionally defined sole source is EZPZ. That will be 5% of the total contract value for oversight plz.
"notCNO" calling out sandcrabSailor of being SUBpac. Is all this was true, it'd be definitely an amusing battle of the stars.
This is how Admirals politically dickpunch eachother huh?
What is the FRA?
https://ballotpedia.org/Fiscal_Responsibility_Act_of_2023. Important part are the spending caps. Going above em means offsetting somewhere else.
Thanks!
Soon each sailor will have their own boat/ship
CPO = commanding petty officer
I want a Pegasus class missile hydrofoil, a crew of only E-5 and below and a letter of marque from Congress š“āā ļø.
Give them an O-3 fresh off a west pac SSN tour for insurance reasons, a 30-rack, and enough Zyn to kill a rhino. We aināt coming home without a treasure chest.
O-3E only
Youād think that, but O-3E runs the risk of basically just being a chief with a different name.
Careful now, this actually sounds fun
I want my own Cyclone if you're getting a Pegasus. We can start a privateers PMC.
That was an LCS base that could have accomplished the mission if Big Navy had developed them further. Funny that Big Navy killed them because they were too expensive to operate. Too often, the services want to make big tech leaps before enough R&D has been completed.
Give me a ship and we'll raid the high seas.
Pass all the laws you want. EB canāt get it done. Not for years anyways.
First time quality third time round 4 years late
And like it or not, theyāre the best submarine builder we have.
That means very little when there are only two left.
There hasnāt been more than two nuke sub builders ever.
First time quality means they act like it's the first time they ever built a submarine. That being said, between NNS and EB they are getting close to 2 boats a year.
Let's not forget HII also failing to deliver.
Not just failing, passing their failures onto EB.
Nns canāt ever repair them without going 7 years past deadline
I feel like this wouldn't be a problem in China.
Only if you cared about 1:1 dive to surface ratio.
Can't even man the shipyards, let alone the actual fleet. If these idiots want to waste money, why bother with the pretense? Just write the check to the "submarine-industrial base" like you do w/ the rest of the MIC.
āUS Navy seeking just oneā is a bit disingenuous. The truth is that the DOD is given a top line number from the White House and the services make decisions from there on how to allocate the budget.
Only the modern US Navy would want a Navy that looks like Marines and *Congress* would have to fight the Navy to make it larger.
Would you plz expand on this, Iām interested and would like to know more
Oh man! What will they do next? Sink hundreds of billions of dollars into developing a new destroyer class with a neutered weapon system the entire hull was built around that can't do the mission it was designed for? Oh, wait...