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CNO: Industry Cannot Build Three Destroyers Per Year Yet

CNO: Industry Cannot Build Three Destroyers Per Year Yet
The Huntington Ingalls Industries-built future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG-121) Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class destroyer undergoing builder’s trials in the Gulf of Mexico in August 2021. (Photo: HII).

The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on Wednesday said the defense industry is not ready to build up to three Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers, even while Congress is looking to pass legislation allowing the Navy to buy that many. “So right now, the Congress, at least in the current budget that's up on the Hill, there is a proposal to increase destroyers to three a year, if the industrial base can support that…Right now, we are not at a point…

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