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The vast majority of US Navy shipyards were sold off between world war 2 and today. As an example, the Brooklyn Naval Shipyard is now luxury condominiums. The US government owns four shipyards total: Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington, and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii. Every ship in the navy is built at a handful of private shipyards, and the capability to expand naval shipbuilding isn’t available. With neoliberalism in full swing, the number of skilled shipyard workers is kept as low as possible, with massive layoffs happening every few years, further reducing the inventory of skilled shipbuilders.
This is likewise true with aircraft manufacturing, as well as other manufacturing capabilities. There are no typewriter factory equivalents to retool to make tommygun equivalents.
The bottom line is that the US cannot sustain medium term or long term peer or near peer warfare and, as someone who was in defense acquisitions in a previous life and in manufacturing now, the capabilities of extant materiel isn’t sufficient to justify being the most expensive military in history.
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in Kittery, ME. They do not build ships there, it is chiefly for refurbishing existing nuclear subs.
Thanks for the correction. I forgot that NNSY is in Portsmouth, VA and I always confuse Norfolk Naval Shipyard with Newport News Shipbuilding, which is where they build aircraft carriers (privately owned, of course).