Sunk cost! 💰 EXCLUSIVE: Navy will spend equivalent of Ukraine's GDP on subs it barely uses 🔗
, which had surfaced in Scotland.In the latest"Commanders Intent 4.0," issued by the submarine force chief late last year, the Navy says that the submarine force is available"in response to contingencies across the globe," Though naval experts universally toldthat attack submarines can deny Russia and China's ability to operate away from their coastal waters, they rarely need to.
China is no better, and Beijing's submarine operations were also minor in 2022, though more robust than Russia's. According to the secret Navy data, most months between eight and 11 Chinese submarines operated beyond local waters, including one ballistic missile submarine patrol. But these submarines rarely left the protected seas around the mainland, including China's 16 nuclear-powered submarines.
In the next decade, the $200 billion that the Pentagon plans to spend on new submarines represents about 60 percent of its total shipbuilding budget. For comparison, the entire 2024 Department of Defense budget request is $842 billion. "We're really struggling," Vice Adm. Bill Galinis, head of Naval Sea Systems Command said in September. Construction of new boats is also months behind schedule—to the point that the Government Accountability Office recently reported that the projected schedule provided by the Navy is"not reliable."Read the leaked secret intelligence documents on Ukraine and Vladimir Putin
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