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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Seven New Carriers (Maybe)

Today’s Navy leaders are in a bind. With the size of the fleet at 277 warships, and with a stated requirement for 313, the service faces a broad, long-term, and expensive shipbuilding task. Senior officers are struggling to find the money, with no assurance of success.

In the midst of all this, however, there is at least one certainty. Navy leadership is staunchly committed to buying many more big-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers—the most powerful, and expensive, warships on Earth. The Navy’s latest shipbuilding plan calls for building seven of these ships over the next 30 years.

The top admirals insist that the Navy’s current force of eleven 100,000-ton, 1,100-foot-long floating airfields offers the best means for carrying out a wide array of US Navy missions.

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