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Originally Posted by merrylander
So why are we building two new carriers, or the F35 fighter, or any other half dozen armaments?
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Jobs and technological advancement?
I think there are 8 decommissioned aircraft carriers -- some built in the 1940s -- that could ostensibly be modernized and used with most modern equipment (in austere refits for cheap) but we don't move technology forward and we don't maintain keel-up shipbuilding capacity.
We used to have multiple places to build carriers. Now, we have one...