Nimble Books LLC » carrier warfare http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress Timely, colorful, thought-provoking and concise Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en a fundamental purpose of destroyers http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/07/a-fundamental-purpose-of-destroyers/ http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/07/a-fundamental-purpose-of-destroyers/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:18:21 +0000 admin http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2008/07/24/a-fundamental-purpose-of-destroyers/ in carrier warfare is to man the perimeter of the carrier battle group and absorb heavy losses. While it may not be true that you can never have enough surface combatants, 84 is only 7.5 escorts per 11 carrier groups. An aditional 25 combatants, or ten escorts per carrier, would be a good thing. Maybe at 12 or 15 escorts per carrier they start getting in each other’s way.

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Collins and Senate colleagues had added $2.6 billion to the 2008 defense bill for the third DDG-1000, which was to have been built by her constituents at Bath Iron Works. She is now advocating for the construction of nine more DDG-51s at BIW, in order to maintain the shipyard’s employment level and turnover. This is apparently more important than any military need for the DDG-51s, which is not discussed in Collins’ release.

It is now time to revisit future Navy fleet requirements: here’s a link to some recommended reading from Bob Work at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, who has suggested ways of defining a new surface combatant

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