@dad_jokes_4ever226
I'm convinced Simon got kidnapped a few years ago and was locked in a room and forced to endlessly speak into a camera forever .....
@vaclavholek4497
I work for DoD, we have a saying, "An elephant is just a mouse, built to government specification."
@LesterSuggs
With a military budget of $910,000,000,000 we should have a naval yard on the god damn moon.
@nothingtoseaheardammit
So during COVID I decided to take a welding course. I live about 25 miles away from Bath Iron Works that built all of the Zumwalts and who makes the Arleigh-Burkes. I came to understand that the problem with us being able to build ships came down to two things: 1) Antiquated Labor Union practices and 2) Feckless government specifications that constantly change. In the first case - I could train to become a welder. Pass all of my tests.... get hired by IBW and then... push a broom. For 3 years. Then I'll graduate and finally I'll start... grinding. For 3 more years. After 6 years of sweeping and grinding, I'll FINALLY be able to use a welder... but then I wont be able to grind. Which, if you know anything about melting metal together - the welder and the grinder go literally hand in hand. But no. Welding is one union-dues-paying job and grinding is another. So what should be performed by one human being, has to be done by two. So. Fucking. Stupid. Then there's the government constantly changing shit. One time my instructor had to climb up inside an antenna mast to weld something on the inside - in an incredibly challenging position...after he crawled out of that tube that he'd been in for 3 hours, he was informed that "they changed their mind" and he had just wasted his time going up and doing that weld.
@Seldonlair
The problem with these US contractors is that they are never taken to legal courts and punitively punished for lying about what they signed a contract to do.
@hazonku
You know that SEAL just had his people present a Powerpoint presentation with the words "modular" and "force multiplier" and "sensor fusion" one every single slide. LOL
@michaelashby9654
These stories are really about digging out of a giant hole. But the people who dug the hole are still holding the gold plated shovels they used to begin with.
@SpidermanandJeny
A big problem with the military building stuff in general is that everything needs multi year promises to actually get the job done but must things only get year to year deals.
@oeliamoya9796
2:31 to skip ad straight to video
@lsy6237
When i served, i was doing overhaul of equipment at a shipyard. We did the overhaul so fast that i was ordered to slow down so the civilians can claim the hours for the job. Sad part was we didn't move fast, we just did the job. They had union hours contract that needed to keep the civilians happy. Make me mad to this day.
@3613jeremy
If our government would go back to having schools teaching mechanics, welding, wood shop, computer programming, and so on we might start getting those speciallist back
@rmar127
One would assume that they would also need ports bravo, Charlie and Delta too. Because concentrating all of your production in one spot makes it easier for an enemy to target
@Agiantpansy
>Where should they build it? This is a far fetched suggestion but... Indiana Or one of the other Midwest states on lake Michigan. You'd get all the potential manpower of Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan looking for high paying jobs as well as the infrastructure of the Midwest. The land is cheaper than ocean front property in coastal states, and it's more economical for it's workers to make a good wage. In terms of defense the great lakes are unassailable, we wouldn't have to worry about this port ever being attacked by an enemy sub, and any missile strike would have to cover thousands of miles of US territory to reach this location. The finished ships then just sail down St. Lawrence into the Atlantic, perhaps they build a maintenance facility on each coast as well for upkeep.
@AbolishTheBATFE
The problem with the Navy's fleet capacity and logistics can be boiled down to three things: 1) the multilevel invasive privatization of every facet of the organization 2) the "design by committee" approach that's done by beaurocrats instead of operators and experts 3) mission creep
@gamehacker5692
Finally—been asking about shipyards since the Nimitz video
@Toramt
Seems like maintenance / upkeep on a big ship requires a crew. A kamikaze drone is essentially ammunition so you don't need much there, but a destroyer class? Has machinery tech improved to the point you don't need a daily checklist / maintenance?
@Wave741
In The Netherlands we used to have a solid shipbuilding industrie, but outsoursing abroad was cheaper. Most of the bigger hulls are build in Romania and get their equipment installed in the Netherlands self. Damen Shipyards a local compagnie builds great smaller vessels and even competed for the new subs for the furure. But they will be build in France if I am correct. Damen still had to share their research and was not happy about it. Here in Europe maritieme ships have to be tendered inside EU, so a country with high level of technology has to get it build in a former Soviet Union state wich makes a lower offer on all the manual work. But at the same time receives all the plans and developement from their customer. Damen could build those vessels in Netherlands itself, but then there was a bit of news about supposedly bribes and they were flamed down by Dutch gouvernement. I don't know the whole story, have a look at it how Dutch Navy shipyards were shrunk and demolished to get build abroad.
@luckylg1046
The problems started with the end of the Cold War. America, like many of its allies downsided their military and more importantly the ability to maintain their equipment. The US Nay and US government closed down many naval yards that had the capacity to maintain and upgrade ships, and let many of the skilled workers go. The current shipyard capacity not only has to build new ships but maintain and upgrade existing ships in the same yards. Now you're dealing with reduced capacity to do both types of work and skilled worker shortage. The US Navy also has the added problem of they keep messing around with future ship designs and making changes that add time and money to the projects. Of course there are many more issues. But these were the start of their problems from the early 90s forward.
@brunol-p_g8800
9:55: that is a 3 tubes torpedo launcher, not a rocket launcher. But if they can fit that, they’ll be able to fit a rocket launcher without any problems.
@megaprojects9649