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AlexYe

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mack8 said:
Not enough, China should have built 1 million tons between 2021-2025.
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Just count the non-military ships they made
If you want a stat, China State Shipbuilding Corporation, produced more commercial ship tonnage in 2024 than the total output of the entire US shipbuilding industry from the end of World War II to the present..

China State Shipbuilding Corporation also makes ships for PLAN
 
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BasilicaLew said:
General Atomics and Anduril.
HOW HOW DO YOU LOSE TO ANDURIL? :eek:
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Even if their products and services are inferior to those of the established players, the U.S. Military is intentionally subsidizing new players to bring some competition into the hegemony of Lockmart, I ain't Goeing if Boeing, General Atomics and Northrop Grumman.

Plus, Incr.1 is all about simplicity, cheapness, and scale; so the winning design doesn't necessarily have to beat the other contenders in performance.
 
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M1 Abrams being tested with integrated drone launcher.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1996953373073911818

I suspect this will feed into the next generation version of the Abrams which is supposed to be lighter. Fitting a drone launcher like that within the turret would likely require an unmanned turret like that demonstrated with the AbramsX prototype produced by General Dynamics. You can also see what look to be roughed out placeholders for an APS system as well on the turret.
 
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Breaking Defense is reporting that the new frigate will be based on the Legend-class cutter (National Security Cutter - NSC) and is expected to be in the water by 2028. Apparently Navy Secretary John Phelan made these comments at a private dinner recently.

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Navy Secretary John Phelan recently told attendees at a private dinner that the new frigate would be a modified National Security Cutter, sources told Breaking Defense.
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“We believe the future frigate can be in the water in 2028,” Jason Potter, the Navy’s acting acquisition executive, told attendees today at the
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here in Washington. He said the service was focused on using a design approach that separates finalizing the ship’s design from the construction of the lead ship, a path the Navy is taking with its new
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Then at last weekend’s
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, Navy Secretary John Phelan said the new frigate would be based on an American design and stressed that any change orders would have to go through him. (The Navy has taken severe criticism by lawmakers and outside observers for making an excessive number of design changes to the Constellation-class frigate, which experts argue led to its schedule problems and cost overruns.)
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I am not sure how this is better than Constellation other than it will be cheaper to build... I guess?
 
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