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The Essential The National Security Economics of the U.S. Navy - Part 4
The Other U.S. Yards, Florida’s Role, and Tampa’s Lost Capacity
When you step back from Newport News and look at the rest of America’s naval shipbuilding map, you realize how small and specialized it really is. We are not a country dotted with mega-yards anymore. Instead, we are a country with just a handful of critical facilities, each one tied to a single type of ship, each one with very little margin for error.
In Maine, Bath Iron Works builds destroyers — specifically, the Arleigh Burke class. It has been doing so for decades, and while it is a capable yard, it is also limited. One or two…
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