Submarine maintenance woes have also been much in the news, and in a doubleplus-ungood way. Yet the ship count dawdles around where it was back in 2016, even as Chinese shipyards mass-produce new surface combatants like sausages enroute to a 500-ship People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy fleet. After all, it’s pushing seven years since they imposed the 355-ship mandate. Whether lawmakers will follow through remains a nettlesome question. And provided Congress levies enough taxpayer money at last to construct, operate, and maintain such a fleet. Or it’s good news provided the shipbuilding complex can handle the extra load. That’s up from 299 in service today, and it would exceed the 355-ship fleet mandated by U.S. Navy delivered a classified shipbuilding plan to Congress this week espousing a 381-ship fleet, not counting uncrewed vessels, of which it wants 150 or so. ![]() Navy news has been a mixed bag of late is it ever otherwise?
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