Aluminum Demand for Naval Shipbuilding Set to Rise This Decade

You are a Somali pirate in your high speed launch roaming the Indian Ocean in search of slow moving tankers or cargo ships.

You are a South American drug runner stealthily running across the Caribbean towards the southern states with your cocaine haul.

You feel secure in your high speed boat capable of 30-40 knots and lightly armed, large frigates can’t keep up with you or follow close into shore.

So imagine your sense of foreboding when this looms over the horizon, bearing down on you at up to 50 knots and capable of firing 2” diameter shells at a rate of 4 per second or short range missiles from up to 24 miles away.

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