USA plans to build a 1,000 ship Navy

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USA currently has around 590 ship Navy. But future plans of the Pentagon plan to build a 1,000 ship Navy.

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/leaders…s.asp?q=11&c=2

“Whenever and wherever the opportunity exists, we must develop and sustain relationships that will help improve the capacity of our emerging and enduring partners’ maritime forces, and help them achieve common desired effects.” (From CNO’s 2007 Guidance Focuses on Execution, February 2, 2007 )

“Fifteen years ago that would have been all U.S. Navy 6th Fleet ships. Now I am looking at getting the leverage of 10… That’s a model of a thousand-ship navy.” (From article in Military Officer Magazine, October 2006)

“We talk about a “thousand ship Navy”. That’s not just our ships. It’s an international fleet of like-minded nations participating in security operations around the world.” (Remarks made at a town hall meeting in Millington, Tenn. Sept. 7, 2006.)

"You’ve heard me speak of the notion of a 1,000-ship navy. It is an idea that is gaining traction. Everywhere I go, heads of navies I speak with are excited about the concept of bringing together a Fleet comprised of ships and capabilities from many law abiding nations, standing watch over the seas – standing watch with each other. " (Current Strategy Forum, Naval War College, 14 June 2006)

"I have been talking frequently about the need to bring together an international 1,000-ship Navy, not just grey hulls flying the U.S. flag, but a network of international navies, coast guards, maritime forces, port operators, commercial shippers and local law enforcement – all working together. " (World Affairs Council, Pittsburgh, Pa., 19 May 2006)

“No nation can do everything, but all nations can do something. Maritime security starts with every nation’s capacity to contribute and expands outward from there.” (Regional Sea Power Symposium, Argentine Naval Staff Headquarters 7 April 2006)

"No matter how large or small your navy or coast guard may be, we all face similar internal constraints like shrinking budgets, aging equipment, and populations that may not be attracted to military service. Our level of cooperation and coordination must intensify in order to adapt to our shared challenges and constraints. We have no choice in this matter, because I am convinced that nobody - no nation today - can go it alone, especially in the maritime domain. " (17th International Seapower Symposium, 21 Sept. 2005, Newport, R.I.)

“I’m after that proverbial 1,000 ship Navy – a fleet-in-being, if you will – comprised of all freedom-loving nations, standing watch over the seas, standing watch over each other. Because I believe, with every fiber of my being, that we are all united by more than just fear.” (To Students and Faculty of the Naval War College, 31 August 2005 at the Naval War College Newport, R.I.)

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Its needed to keep the corporations happy, and its world-dominance, especially with rivals rising so high & so fast.

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^ And I doubt it if rivals will join in.

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Super Power....what else would one expect from a Super Power? :P

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who exactly are they building this navy for? just in case OBL learns how to swim?

aao sab seee..
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or maybe theyre operating on "If you build it they will come"

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Seems as if they already are.

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It was not so long ago that the S had a 1000 ship navy. The US Navy of the future will be much different. The ships they are planning on building are a fleet of internetworked littoral ships. These ships are significantly smaller that the destroyers of old. Many will be 250 to 300 feet in length, and will be able to operate in very shallow water. Advances in ship power systems and construction will allow for a much smaller crew. Smaller faster steatthier submarines will be built, with much smaller crews than the huge missle boats previously built. More specialized boats such as mine sweepers, supply ships and roll-on-roll-off ships will be built, but many of these will be merchant ships, not Navy flagged vessels. The ships that are put into service will be small, and highly networked. so that attack systems and sensor sytems can be widely dispersed, and highly integrated. The loss of any one ship will allow the network to remain highly intact. All of the ships will have satellite intel and communications that only flag ships had in the past.

Thus the "1000" ship number may seem as if it is a big expansion, when really it entails many smaller more capable ships, and fewer monsterous hard-to-maintain ships. The ship count could therefore be a bit misleading.

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What about the aircraft carriers? How many currently and in the future?

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OG we will believe you if you change your signature.:)

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I don't think that there will be any increase in carriers. However with the two most recent carriers we will have two brand new nuclear carriers that require much less maintenence than the old oilers, and they are working on a staffing that keeps the ships moving, but completely changes out the staff every six months. That makes the carriers more available than the old ones that would spend every other year in dry dock.

With the new stealth based aircraft, the carriers are far more dangerous. The navy is in very good shape.

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Wish this 1000 ships will start sinking all the fish trawlers using kief nets and long lines.

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USA has 12 Air Craft Carriers each designated its own battle group.

USA permanently keeps 1 Carrier Battle group in Japan to confront China and North Korea and give aid to Taiwan in case of a Chinese invasion.

The US 7th Fleet in Japan is the most powerful US Naval Fleet.

So Current Deployment of US Air Craft Carriers.

2 are in Persian Gulf
1 is in Mediterranean
1 is in Japan
1 is in San Diego
2 are in Pearl Harbor
and the remaining 5 are in the East Coast

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‘India, US not uniting against oceanic crimes’
Thursday, May 17, 2007

NEW DELHI: India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday ruled out his country’s joining the US in developing a worldwide network to combat oceanic crimes, stating that there was no such proposal from the US Navy.

Addressing the Lok Sabha, he said that India was already party to two United Nations conventions on crimes on high seas and as such had not considered joining any other network apart from these. He said the issue was separate from India-US defence cooperation.

Mukherjee said large maritime crimes take place when ships are on the high seas, endangering their safety and security, but such crimes are always tackled through UN conventions. He said the Indian Navy had once liberated a Japanese ship hijacked under these conventions, while an Indian ship in Somali waters had been similarly rescued from pirates. iftikhar gilani

Daily Times

Oops, looks like the American dream has been flushed down the toilet.

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Asia interested in new warship

The US firm Lockheed Martin said some Asian countries had expressed serious interest in the defence contractor’s new class of warship, which can be used against terrorist and pirate vessels.

The company was in intensive talks with nations in Asia and elsewhere about the ship, said Dan Howard, the firm’s senior adviser for Asia-Pacific affairs, on the sidelines of a defence exhibition in Singapore.

News of the negotiations comes amid a naval build-up in Asia, with the region expected to spend 108 billion US dollars on boosting submarine and other maritime defences over the next 10 years, the exhibition’s organisers said.

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), designed to operate close to the shore and able to hunt submarines and conduct surveillance, was ideally suited to Asian countries with vast maritime coastlines, he said.

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=465710