{"id":3777,"date":"2020-11-08T16:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2020-11-08T16:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:07:45","slug":"us-navy-needs-to-have-more-than-500-ships-by-2045-to-have-edge-against-china-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3777","title":{"rendered":"US Navy needs to have more than 500 ships by 2045 to have edge against China and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The Navy wants to double its number of submarines as part of a modernization plan to build more than 500 ships by 2045 to maintain a competitive edge against other naval powers such as China and Russia, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said”
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“Esper said the need to modernize the Navy is in part due to China\u2019s own naval modernization and shipbuilding efforts. The Pentagon\u2019s China report released Sept. 1 determined the country aims to have a \u201cworld-class\u201d military on par with the United States by 2049. It already has the largest navy in the world at 350 ships. The United States now has 296 deployable battle force ships, according to the Navy.”
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“The first priority of that plan is to have a large number of attack submarines, with a target of 70 to 80 submarines overall. This will require the Navy to build at least three next generation Virginia-class submarines every year \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d Esper said. The Navy now has more than 40 operational attack submarines, according to Pentagon documents.”
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“Large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers also will be part of the future Navy, still considered the force\u2019s \u201cmost visible deterrent,\u201d he said. The Navy is also looking at \u201clight carriers,\u201d such as the USS America amphibious assault ship that can go to sea with vertical takeoff and landing aircraft including the F-35B fighters and the MV-22 Osprey. These light carriers would free up the bigger carriers for more of the \u201ccritical high-end fight,\u201d Esper said.”
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“Unmanned naval vessels have been discussed in a number of congressional hearings about the future of the Navy and they are included in the Battle Force 2045 plan. Esper said the future force will have between 140 to 240 unmanned and \u201coptionally manned\u201d surface and subsurface vessels that can perform a variety of missions including surveillance, mine-laying and missile strikes.”
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“Congressional help will also be necessary to make the plan work. Esper said he wants lawmakers to stop using continuing resolutions to fund the defense budget and allow the military to divest from legacy systems so that the funds can be put towards \u201chigher priorities.\u201d He also said he will request that the Navy have the authority to put any end-of-year budget savings towards shipbuilding instead of the losing money when it is not spent.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Navy wants to double its number of submarines as part of a modernization plan to build more than 500 ships by 2045 to maintain a competitive edge against other naval powers such as China and Russia, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Esper said the need to modernize the Navy is in part due to China\u2019s own naval modernization and shipbuilding efforts. The Pentagon\u2019s China report released Sept. 1 determined the country aims to have a \u201cworld-class\u201d military on par with the United States by 2049. It already has the largest navy in the world at 350 ships. The United States now has 296 deployable battle force ships, according to the Navy.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The first priority of that plan is to have a large number of attack submarines, with a target of 70 to 80 submarines overall. This will require the Navy to build at least three next generation Virginia-class submarines every year \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d Esper said. The Navy now has more than 40 operational attack submarines, according to Pentagon documents.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers also will be part of the future Navy, still considered the force\u2019s \u201cmost visible deterrent,\u201d he said. The Navy is also looking at \u201clight carriers,\u201d such as the USS America amphibious assault ship that can go to sea with vertical takeoff and landing aircraft including the F-35B fighters and the MV-22 Osprey. These light carriers would free up the bigger carriers for more of the \u201ccritical high-end fight,\u201d Esper said.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Unmanned naval vessels have been discussed in a number of congressional hearings about the future of the Navy and they are included in the Battle Force 2045 plan. Esper said the future force will have between 140 to 240 unmanned and \u201coptionally manned\u201d surface and subsurface vessels that can perform a variety of missions including surveillance, mine-laying and missile strikes.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Congressional help will also be necessary to make the plan work. Esper said he wants lawmakers to stop using continuing resolutions to fund the defense budget and allow the military to divest from legacy systems so that the funds can be put towards \u201chigher priorities.\u201d He also said he will request that the Navy have the authority to put any end-of-year budget savings towards shipbuilding instead of the losing money when it is not spent.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,314,259,1056,315,1057,619],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-russia","tag-ships","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3778,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}