Post by Admin on May 13, 2020 8:50:47 GMT -5
Having proven very vulnerable, to even a pandemic virus, in the era of hypersonic antiship
missiles, there are doubts about the longer term viability.
alert5.com/2020/05/13/future-carrier-2030-task-force-effort-canceled/#more-81734
Posted on May 13, 2020
The new Acting U.S. Navy Secretary James McPherson has canceled a study initiated by his predecessor. The Future Carrier 2030 effort was supposed to be a 6-month study on the future of the aircraft carrier in the sailing branch.
breakingdefense.com/2020/05/navy-scraps-big-carrier-study-clears-deck-for-osd-effort/
WASHINGTON: Acting Navy Secretary James McPherson has scuttled a major initiative of his ousted predecessor, canceling a planned 6-month study on the future of the aircraft carrier, relying instead on a DoD-led effort to determine the size and structure of the future fleet.
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missiles, there are doubts about the longer term viability.
alert5.com/2020/05/13/future-carrier-2030-task-force-effort-canceled/#more-81734
Posted on May 13, 2020
The new Acting U.S. Navy Secretary James McPherson has canceled a study initiated by his predecessor. The Future Carrier 2030 effort was supposed to be a 6-month study on the future of the aircraft carrier in the sailing branch.
breakingdefense.com/2020/05/navy-scraps-big-carrier-study-clears-deck-for-osd-effort/
WASHINGTON: Acting Navy Secretary James McPherson has scuttled a major initiative of his ousted predecessor, canceling a planned 6-month study on the future of the aircraft carrier, relying instead on a DoD-led effort to determine the size and structure of the future fleet.
The acting SecNav, who has kept the ship steady since taking over from Thomas Modly last month, “recently determined the Department of the Navy will not, for the time being, move forward with the Future Carrier 2030 effort,” Cmdr. Sarah Higgins told me in an email. Instead, the Navy “will fully support the Department of Defense’s internal study on future force structure requirements,
which will include a carrier review.”