With Navy leaders envisioning a fleet of smaller, faster and more agile ships, the future of the country’s large shipbuilders is sinking fast. Last month, Navy leaders pulled the plug on a plan to subsidize the United States’ two large shipyards — Maine’s Bath Iron Works and Northrop Grumman’s Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. — through alternating construction of a new class of surface destroyers at each yard.
Green Marine
about 21 years ago
Navy seeks to issue a new order: Abandon shipyards
With Navy leaders envisioning a fleet of smaller, faster and more agile ships, the future of the country’s large shipbuilders is sinking fast. Last month, Navy leaders pulled the plug on a plan to subsidize the United States’ two large shipyards — Maine’s Bath Iron Works and Northrop Grumman’s Ingal
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