US Navy ship-building

[Peter1469]

US Navy ship-building

With its increased budget, the US Navy is going to contract for several new vessels. We are going to commission 3 Littoral Class Combat Ships, three Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers, two Virginia class attack submarines, and two John Lewis class fleet oilers and an Expeditionary Sea Base and a fleet tug. Additionally, plans our in the works for a new Ford Class aircraft carrier. And guess what its name will be! The Enterprise. CVN-80.

KTF

The House Appropriations Committee’s defense funding bill for Fiscal Year 2019 would buy a dozen new warships for the Navy, including two Littoral Combat Ships beyond the service’s request, according to the text of the bill that was released on Wednesday.

The $22.7-billion shipbuilding account includes three LCSs, three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDG-51), two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSN-774), two John Lewis-class fleet oilers, an Expeditionary Sea Base and a fleet tug.


Absent from the bill is money to accelerate the procurement of a Ford-class aircraft carrier (CVN-78), which the House Armed Service Committee’s National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019 supported doing. The Navy has proposed buying the planned Enterprise (CVN-80) and the yet-unnamed CVN-81 in a two-carrier contract to achieve some savings, and HASC further supported this by allowing the Navy to bump CVN-81 procurement up to FY 2019 to create additional workforce efficiencies by having the ships centered closer together.


The defense spending bill also sides with the HASC and opposes SASC and the Navy when it comes to LCS. Navy leaders have been split on the need for additional LCS buys to maintain the shipbuilding industrial base ahead of the transition to the next-generation FFG(X) guided-missile frigate. The Navy plans to buy 20 frigates from one of five companies competing for the program – including both current LCS builders.

Rendering of the third ship in the Ford class of aircraft carriers, Enterprise (CVN-80).

[DGUtley]

Another "Big E"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CV-6)

[MMC]

The Navy's New Frigate Revealed

Well, sort of. The Pentagon's new RFP doesn't provide a whole lot of detail on what the Navy wants.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning" ... of the U.S. Navy's search for a new frigate warship. (With apologies to Winston Churchill.)

Last week, at long last, the U.S. Navy issued its official Request for Proposals (RFP) from defense contractors interested in building it a new frigate. Smaller than a destroyer but larger than a coastal patrol vessel, the Navy is seeking a warship more robust than its much-maligned Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to fill out its requirement for 52 "small surface combatants" in the fleet.



Despite the time that's passed already, the 77 pages (mostly restating the rules of government contracting) contained in this RFP only actually sketch out a few key requirements for the vessel, hereafter known as "FFG(X)":

Timeline, cost, and bidders

The Navy's RFP doesn't even contain much in the way of a timeline, other than mentioning that construction should begin by 2020. Fortunately, just a couple days after the RFP came out, the Congressional Research Service published a report filling in a few more details that should interest investors.


Production of the first frigate, as the RFP stated, is to begin in 2020, followed by a second in 2021. Construction should then continue through 2030 at the rate of two ships per year, until the Navy receives a full complement of 20 warships......snip~


https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/...-revealed.aspx


Word is we are looking at the Italians Frigate, and the ships would be built in Wisconsin.

[MMC]

We need to get to a 355 ship Navy. ASAP.

[NapRover]

I'm all for building up--but doesn't it seem like our adversaries are spending a lot on aircraft carrier defense/destruction? How safe are our carriers and destroyers, etc.?

[MMC]

I'm all for building up--but doesn't it seem like our adversaries are spending a lot on aircraft carrier defense/destruction? How safe are our carriers and destroyers, etc.?

How vulnerable are the US aircraft carriers and battle ...

https://www.quora.com/How-vulnerable-are-the-US-aircraft-carriers...
A United States aircraft carrier group is one of the most secure entities on the planet. What I feel is most misunderstood is that carriers never travel alone. There are numerous ships always traveling around a carrier to ensure its safety against a …



Five Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Nearly Impossible ...

nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/five-reasons-us-aircraft...
Large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the signature expression of American military power. No other combat system available to U.S. warfighters comes close to delivering so much offensive punch for months at a time without requiring land bases near the action. As a result, the ...

[MisterVeritis]

How vulnerable are the US aircraft carriers and battle ...

https://www.quora.com/How-vulnerable-are-the-US-aircraft-carriers...
A United States aircraft carrier group is one of the most secure entities on the planet. What I feel is most misunderstood is that carriers never travel alone. There are numerous ships always traveling around a carrier to ensure its safety against a …



Five Reasons U.S. Aircraft Carriers Are Nearly Impossible ...

nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/five-reasons-us-aircraft...
Large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the signature expression of American military power. No other combat system available to U.S. warfighters comes close to delivering so much offensive punch for months at a time without requiring land bases near the action. As a result, the ...

I predict space based surveillance and hypervelocity cruise missiles and ballistic missiles will achieve kinetic kills.

[MMC]

I predict space based surveillance and hypervelocity cruise missiles and ballistic missiles will achieve kinetic kills.

What should the US do.....to counter such measures?

[MisterVeritis]

What should the US do.....to counter such measures?

Go underwater. Improve stealth characteristics. Develop active countermeasures for every link in the enemy's kill chain.

[MMC]

Go underwater. Improve stealth characteristics. Develop active countermeasures for every link in the enemy's kill chain.

I think we are looking at Lasers, and what about the rail gun? Also Drones?