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...is dropping.

Hallelujah!

https://www.tradewindsnews.com/shipyards/trump-bud...

A budget proposal by US President Donald Trump will contain what is described as the largest government ship order package since World War II.

Scheduled to be released on Friday, it will contain $65.8bn in orders for the US Navy alone, with the vessel proposals spanning both warships and non-combat ships, a spokesperson for the White House budget office told TradeWinds.

Booyah! What's in this package?

The OMB proposal includes funding for 18 ships in the navy’s battle force, the spokesperson said. It will also include another 16 non-battle force ships, such as hospital ships, submarine tenders, oilers and roll-on, roll-off ships known as strategic sealift vessels. In a major departure, the US is looking to existing commercial designs for many of these vessels, a move that would allow more shipyards to get in the game at lower costs.

It's great to have a load of ships of the line, but you need almost as many logistics ships to keep the engine running...especially if your focus is the Pacific Ocean, as it is with the present administration.

Great to see a) we get that and b) we're looking for ways to get hulls in the water faster.

Now let's re-vamp the Hawaii fuel depots around Pearl Harbor.

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