On: Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships

[darth_avocado]

Why can't we just have a technology transfer agreement? Purchase the ships from Finland but make them at a US shipyard? Other countries do that with US defense manufacturers all the time. Purchase items, but with the condition that it will be manufactured in that country.

[jahewson → darth_avocado]

Technological knowhow is one thing, but the real problem is that we can’t build any kind of ship anymore, neither commercial nor naval:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456073

[supportengineer → jahewson]

What about nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers built in Newport News, VA ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_News_Shipbuilding

[rjsw → darth_avocado]

That is what is being done with the next class of US Navy frigates [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation-class_frigate

[pixelesque → rjsw]

Which itself is turning into a bit of a disaster in terms of how different they are to the original Italian design...

[fredgrott → darth_avocado]

they already do see

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2024/0...