A senior defense-focused senator cautioned the Navy yesterday against growing its fleet to 313 ships by purchasing what she views as too many less-advanced vessels, expressing concern about the service's rate of buying large surface combatants. “Building a large number of ships with limited combat capability at the expense of increasing the number of ships with higher capability could well be a Pyrrhic victory,” or one that comes with huge costs, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told the Surface Navy Association at its annual symposium in Arlington, Va. yesterday.…
Collins Calls For Navy To Emphasize Surface Combatants
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