10 carrier navy, that means with dry dock time, retraining time, and post deployment, we'll be lucky to have 2 carriers out at any given time after 2040. Maybe we'll move to smaller CVLs/LHAs, to compensate?
Hold of on LHA-X? But what about the retiring of the Tarawa's? What'll take up their numbers in the fleet? Nevermind, I see they aren't talking about the Americas. Disregard.
Stop production of the F-22 line? We are already well below the 1 to 3 ratio of F-22s to F-15C/D/Es ... I can understand the high cost per unit, but are we really moving to the Thunderchief 2s, I mean F-35s.
I can understand the thinking on the DD-1000s and proposed CG(X) line. But here's hoping the remaining Ticos will have a longer hull life.
Here's hoping the C-5M program works, otherwise, with all the C-141s long since retired, and only 200+ C-17s replacing at a 1 to 3 scenario. I guess no one is worried about future need to move whole divisions in a timely manor any more, not that that requirement hasn't been needed since the beginning of the 1990s (that makes me feel so much older).
Any chance that in the next 10 years we'll see a move towards initiating a program for an air superiority/dogfighter for naval aviation, with legs?
Anyone up for a KC-777?
Extension of the Burkes, or a Burke + Plug line to replacing aging CGs?
As for the new planned SSBNs ... are we looking at smaller, better, more numerous? Say Virginia + plug?