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The budget of the United States Navy restricted funds are not enough and priorities to achieve results that require a change. About this in his recent interview said Charles A. Williams, a former assistant Secretary of the Navy for energy.
It rear Admiral Williams included information that the U.S. Navy require a fundamental restructuring, as available at the moment naval infrastructure of its content requires a lot more money than is allocated for this purpose. In fact it turns out that investing multivalued amount does not correspond to the efficiency of the Navy. Accordingly, the logic of American officials that the efficiency was higher need more Finance...
Charles Williams commented on the fact that the United States can no longer fight on two fronts - with Russia and China. Of the opponents, according to him, by far, the focus has to be China.
Go directly to the numbers. At the moment, the US Navy has ships 296, 39 of them marked for decommissioning due to the poor technical condition. The U.S. Congress requires a place to 355 ships against, respectively, 355 Chinese units of the fleet. However, in the near Beijing's plans to convert this number in 420. The US is trying in this plan for China to keep up.
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In naval aviation, the situation is even more complicated. Ready is less than 70% (as the saying goes, we have their problems...), the infrastructure is worn out and supported only by 50-70 percent. The Ministry of defense required minimum 80-percent level of service. Some buildings are in poor condition due to age and untimely repairs and are subject to demolition. The amount of increase in water level on the East coast exacerbates the problem. To solve the problem of deferred maintenance funding is required, equivalent to the cost of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Also sought new means of training, repair and unloading equipment and replenishment. Portfolio naval orders is estimated at nearly half a trillion dollars. And these amounts as stated in the us military, not enough for the formation of the fleet, which could conduct a "war on two fronts". However, it is still not fully clear to what numbers would blow the budget, U.S. Navy officials of this Department. With their excessive financial appetites numbers can be astronomical, even compared to those figures of the funding that the US Navy is now.
