US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

S

SlothmanAllen

Junior Member
Registered Member
AndrewS said:
The US doesn't have a strong shipbuilding industry. What we see are privatised monopolies or duopolies at almost every stage of the shipbuilding supply chain.

And if the US wanted to ramp up shipbuilding significantly, it couldn't do this affordably and quickly because they don't have the supporting heavy industry supply chain (which is largely commercial) nor the personnel from other manufacturing industries to draw upon.
Click to expand...

Sorry for any confusion. I was actually stating that China has a strong shipbuilding industry and thus doesn't really need to react to any US increase in output. That is why I stated any increase in US output is going to be pretty difficult, and what might be likely, is that even with a significant increase in output they end up with a similar sized navy just composed of more modern ships.
 
A

Andy1974

Senior Member
Registered Member
AndrewS said:
The US doesn't have a strong shipbuilding industry. What we see are privatised monopolies or duopolies at almost every stage of the shipbuilding supply chain.

And if the US wanted to ramp up shipbuilding significantly, it couldn't do this affordably and quickly because they don't have the supporting heavy industry supply chain (which is largely commercial) nor the personnel from other manufacturing industries to draw upon.
Click to expand...
They can get Japan and maybe even South Korea to quickly ramp up construction of existing AEGIS designs, both of which have spare capacity due to the successful Chinese shipbuilding industry.

China could ensure that spare capacity is taken up, lest it be used against it. Japan has the largest spare capacity so perhaps China can come up with a way to fill those slots with orders for other things through some joint ventures, win-win cooperation etc,. Or maybe it’s better just to leave it alone.
 
broadsword

broadsword

Brigadier
Andy1974 said:
They can get Japan and maybe even South Korea to quickly ramp up construction of existing AEGIS designs, both of which have spare capacity due to the successful Chinese shipbuilding industry.

China could ensure that spare capacity is taken up, lest it be used against it. Japan has the largest spare capacity so perhaps China can come up with a way to fill those slots with orders for other things through some joint ventures, win-win cooperation etc,. Or maybe it’s better just to leave it alone.
Click to expand...

Sigh! Andy.... Just leave it alone.
 
C

Chilled_k6

Junior Member
Registered Member
Andy1974 said:
They can get Japan and maybe even South Korea to quickly ramp up construction of existing AEGIS designs, both of which have spare capacity due to the successful Chinese shipbuilding industry.

China could ensure that spare capacity is taken up, lest it be used against it. Japan has the largest spare capacity so perhaps China can come up with a way to fill those slots with orders for other things through some joint ventures, win-win cooperation etc,. Or maybe it’s better just to leave it alone.
Click to expand...
In theory they can but won't. They can't even cut the useless LCS from production completely, it's a jobs program. Sending ship production to Korea/Japan is sending jobs overseas.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top