Published Resources Details Journal Article

Author
Polmar, N.
Title
Submarines under attack
In
U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings
Imprint
vol. 131, no. 6, 38504, pp. 88-89
Description

Accession No.3408

Abstract

The U.S. Navy's shipbuilding program is in disarray with the Navy planning to build more high-cost ships than can be funded in the foreseeable future. In particular the planned CVN-78 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and a new destroyer are probable "Deal breakers," i.e., ships that will cost far more than their predecessors and probably be beyond reality in the annual shipbuilding budgets of just over USD10 billion for the next decade. Added to these big-ticket ships are significant numbers of low-cost littoral combat ships plus amphibious ships and fleet auxiliaries."