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Honestly I suspect if the navy brass could go back in time they'd brutally and slowly kill the morons who recondmend closing the long beach, mare island, Charleston, and Philadelphia naval yards because having even just 2 of those around todsy would solve most of the problems that exist in terms...

Blame the peace dividend of the 90s, the war on terror, and ship sizes getting larger among the critical causes. Because that's one big part of the problem especially for subs. We have i believe 18 drydocks capable of holding a LA, 11 for the flight I to 4 VAs, and just 7 can hold the Flight V...

The navy is asking Congress to fork over 4 billion a year for the next decade to address fixing up its bases and yards from what i recall. They have the plans just need the funding allotted

Part of that is that the yards themselves need seriously large amount of upgrades. As in buy 3 fords to pay for all of them levels. That the years of stupid sequestration under obama

Of course nuclear does have a lot of specialist manpower requirements as well

cost overruns and the whole needing to pay for 2 expensive wars.

Its that or using something based off the zumwalt hull. Which certainly is about the right size to be a crusier

For the Constellations I suspect the later flights will excercise the option to add 16 more VLS cells at the expense of another 20 or so million dollars and 200 or so additional tons. Honestly I suspect the reason the Flight Is won't have it is a matter of doing the modifications to the design...