Due to problems with the timing of the construction and repair of ships in the US Navy, they initiate the transfer of shipyards to state ownership
In late January, the US Navy announced that four drydocks on the west coast had been decommissioned due to the potential risk of an earthquake. One of these drydocks is the only one on the West Coast that can service Navy aircraft carriers, meaning that any aircraft carrier damaged on the West Coast must now pass through the Strait of Magellan from the tip of South America to get to repairs at other US bases. The fact that the dry docks were under repair, "Military Review" has already reported, now - details about, so to speak, American feelings about this.
There is concern about three other drydocks, since it is on them that the Navy depends on the maintenance of its nuclear submarines. Each battle plan of the US Navy, according to the management of the department, is more dependent on American fast nuclear submarines. At the moment, the American submarine forces have big problems both with obtaining new boats and with servicing existing ones.
At the U.S. Submarine League's annual symposium last November, the executive director of the Rapid Reaction Force program said 18 submarines were either under maintenance or awaiting maintenance. That's 36 percent of the US Navy's effective underwater combat power.
Part of the problem is that after the Cold War, the Navy reduced the number of shipyards it controlled from eight to four. Naval surface maintenance has been outsourced to private shipyards - also years behind schedule - even though the Navy recently decided to largely suspend maintenance at the Bremerton base level.
Basic math suggests that the US Navy has cut too much infrastructure since the end of the Cold War. The destruction of four Navy shipyards, including two capable of serving nuclear ships and submarines, as part of the Reorganization Commission process, very badly, let's say, damaged the infrastructure of the US Navy.
However, given that the Navy is 700 days behind on submarine maintenance, which is the optimal projected schedule, evidence suggests that two more drydocks are needed.
Analytics strongly suggest that the US Navy now needs at least one additional state-owned naval shipyard. At the same time, the calculations do not take into account the plan of the Navy to increase the high-speed forces by 20 boats in the coming years.
It is the transfer of shipyards for the construction and maintenance of surface and submarine ships from private ownership to state ownership that the US Navy is counting on. There is only one argument: private companies do not cope with the tasks that are set before them in modern conditions. They do not cope, if only because there are protocols that require constant coordination of work and the allocation of funds. The Navy, apparently, wants funds to be released instantly - at the first request.
It turns out that another myth created by the West itself is crumbling before our eyes. The myth that private property is always more efficient than state property and that "the market itself will regulate everything."
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