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CNO: Limited Industrial Capacity Main Barrier To Growing The Fleet

Monday, August 29th, 2022

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CNO: Limited Industrial Capacity Main Barrier To Growing The Fleet

Artist rendering of the first Flight III DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125). (Image: Huntington Ingalls Industries)

Last week the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) said the limited American industrial capacity is the biggest barrier to growing the fleet as much as the Navy wants over the coming decades. “So we have an industrial capacity that's limited. In other words, we can only get so many ships off the production line a year, my goal would be to optimize those production lines for destroyers, for frigates, for amphibious ships, for the light amphibious ships, for supply ships,”…

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