Tag: Dry dock

An Army Marches On Its Stomach And A Fleet Deploys On Maintenance, Especially Its Carriers

Surging carriers and other Navy ships comes at a big cost that must be paid down the line the form of disruptive and time-consuming deep maintenance. The Navy is at a crossroads of sorts in that it needs to invest heavily in its crumbling shipyards and in keeping up the ships it already has before it can expand into the 355 ship fleet it lusts for in the decades to come.