Virginia, 1. Maine and Mississippi, and 1. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Virginia. It also calls for more amphibious assault ships, expeditionary transfer docks and support ships. A larger fleet would be good for national security, better for both the sailors, whod enjoy shorter deployments, and for the ships, which would have more down time for maintenance, said Matthew Paxton, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America, which represents most of the major Navy shipbuilders. Bath Iron Works in Maine The Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber rattling ChinaRussia and China are going to continue to build up their navies, he said. The complexities arent going to get any easier. The Navy, more than any of the services, is our forward presence. Were going to need this Navy. Many defense analysts agree that military capabilities have been degraded in recent years, especially when it comes to warships, aircraft and tanks. The key is finding a way to increase Navy shipbuilding to achieve defense and economic gains in a fiscally responsible way that does not pass the bill along to our children, said independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, a member of the Armed Services Committee. Nothing drives human creativity more than a dire need for new ways to kill each other. Thats why war is often a time of great technological progress. One side. A boost in shipbuilding to meet the 3. Navys 3. 0 year projection. Even when Trump takes office, no one envisions a return to the heady days during the Cold War when workers were wiring, welding, grinding, pounding and plumbing ships at a furious pace to meet President Ronald Reagans audacious goal of a 6. Navy. The Navy currently has 2. Lawrence J. Korb, a retired naval officer and former assistant defense secretary under Reagan, said the Navys request isnt realistic unless the Trump administration is willing to take the budget to levels weve never seen. You never have enough money to buy a perfect defense. You have to make trade offs, said Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. But investors apparently are betting on more ships. Z45AW5N7Y62F.jpg' alt='Black Navy War 2 Hacked Games' title='Black Navy War 2 Hacked Games' />General Dynamics which owns Bath Iron Works, Connecticut based Electric Boat and California based NASSCO and Huntington Ingalls, which owns major shipyards in Virginia and in Mississippi, have both seen stock prices creep upward since the election. To the generic military shipbuilder, its a bull market right now, said Ronald Epstein, an analyst at Bank of Americas Merrill Lynch division. In Bath, the 6,0. A lot of people are hopeful that itll happen, Nolan said. But theyre taking a wait and see approach. Cannot Install Quicktime Windows 7 64 Bit. Theyve heard it before and then seen it not come to fruition.