{"id":1804362,"date":"2023-01-13T06:34:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804362"},"modified":"2023-01-13T06:40:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T11:40:29","slug":"navy-growing-increasingly-frustrated-over-late-weapons-ship-deliveries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-growing-increasingly-frustrated-over-late-weapons-ship-deliveries\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Growing Increasingly Frustrated Over Late Weapons, Ship Deliveries"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnavy-growing-increasingly-frustrated-over-late-weapons-ship-deliveries%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1804362&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GP33MQLOJBCFXMFJJLMNL6YJNI.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">ARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 Exasperation is growing over the U.S Navy\u2019s inability to get missiles and weapons delivered fast enough to keep its own magazines full, let alone offer more assistance to Ukraine or other partners in need, several leaders said at this week\u2019s annual Surface Navy Association conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not as forgiving of the defense industrial base,\u201d Adm. Daryl Caudle was the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command. He stated Jan. \u201cI am not forgiving the fact that they\u2019re not delivering the ordnance we need, I\u2019m just not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cAll this stuff about COVID this, parts, supply chain this, I just don\u2019t really care,\u201d He continued. \u201cI need [Standard Missile]-6s delivered on time. I need more [torpedoes] delivered on time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Caudle is responsible for the readiness-generation of all vessels, submarines, and aircraft on the Atlantic side. He stated that the service was working internally to improve its readiness. This week, he announced the following: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2023\/01\/10\/navy-aims-for-75-mission-capable-surface-ships-amid-readiness-drive\/\">The surface fleet should have at least 75 ships capable of carrying out missions.<\/a> at all times to send on missions with little notice \u2014 but this progress is being hampered by backlogs in industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">The Navy purchases two submarines each year, while the industry delivers only 1.2 per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cIn five years, instead of delivering 10 fast attack submarines, I got six. Where\u2019s the other four? My force is already four submarines short,\u201d Caudle stated. The problem is worsened by ships being out of service late at both Navy public yards or private industry yards. The Navy should have 10 subs in deep maintenance. However, 19 of the 50 are either in service or in process of being repaired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cImagine if I was on time, my submarine force would be nine ships larger. That is a significant number,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Caudle observed that if 75 Navy-capable ships were ready for mission, \u201ctheir magazines wouldn\u2019t all be full.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">He stated that the Navy is aware of which missiles will have the greatest impact in a fight and that the Navy would like to see defense contractors prioritizing these top programs even if it means cutting back on other production lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cWe are spending large amounts of money with these companies. \u2026 When they don\u2019t deliver, that impacts the national security that we provide this country,\u201d The four-star star said. \u201cIf there\u2019s areas that we need to do better \u2026 where they can go build more stable workforces, go buy more early materials, go get more certainty and buy down their risk because we\u2019re more committed to larger buys of ordnance or ships or whatever it is, we\u2019ve got to have those conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2023\/01\/11\/to-shipbuilders-who-think-they-can-build-more-cno-says-prove-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adm. Mike Gilday is Chief of Naval Operations<\/a> told Defense News on Jan. 10 at the conference he prioritized readiness \u2014 including ordnance \u2014 in the fiscal 2023 spending request and would do so again in the FY24 plan expected out this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cThe message that I\u2019m trying to send there is, not only am I trying to fill magazines with weapons, but I\u2019m trying to put U.S. production lines at their maximum level right now and to try and maintain that set of headlights in subsequent budgets, so that we continue to produce those weapons. That\u2019s one thing we\u2019ve seen in Ukraine, that the expenditure of those high-end weapons in conflict could be higher than we estimated,\u201d Gilday said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro also spoke out, telling reporters Jan. 11, that the Navy and Pentagon offer a mix of carrots to weapon-builders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">He said that Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Defense Secretary, and her office want to encourage companies to build weapons for the U.S., but also to be useful in Ukraine in increasing their maximum production rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cThey had a set production rate before Ukraine occurred; now the U.S. government is asking them to increase their production rates,\u201d He said. \u201cThere\u2019s a desire on the part of those companies to do that in a responsible fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Del Toro also stated that the supply chain problems and pandemic are not acceptable excuses for mission delivery times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cIf they\u2019re having a problem set on their side, I don\u2019t want to just hear about it at the final hour,\u201d He said. \u201cI want to hear about it as these problems develop, and if we\u2019re the cause of some of these problems, then fine, let\u2019s talk about them and let\u2019s try to fix them early on so we can deliver that on time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">Del Toro said the solution can\u2019t simply be<b> \u201c<\/b>us throwing money at industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-sc-1tqpf5s-0 kEzXdV body-paragraph body-paragraph\">\u201cThe money that we do make available for workforce development has to be carefully laid out,\u201d He continued. \u201cWe pay attention to how the money is actually being spent to ensure that it\u2019s being spent effectively, efficiently, there are metrics and data that actually support, hopefully, the results that get returned on that investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"default__Wrapper-cy7r53-1 iWrUWb\">\n<p class=\"default__BioWrapper-cy7r53-0 duEMsg a-body2\">Megan Eckstein is the Naval Warfare reporter for Defense News. Since 2009, Megan Eckstein has been covering military news. She focuses on U.S. Navy, Marine Corps operations, acquisition programmes, budgets, and other topics. She has reported from four geographic fleets and is happiest when she\u2019s filing stories from a ship. Megan is a University of Maryland graduate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va. \u2014 Exasperation is growing over the U.S Navy\u2019s inability to get missiles and weapons delivered fast enough to keep its own magazines full, let alone offer more assistance to Ukraine or other partners in need, several leaders said at this week\u2019s annual Surface Navy Association conference. \u201cI\u2019m not as forgiving of the defense &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1804365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,14692,14457,3758,9382,5752,6758,3819,5787,7788],"class_list":["post-1804362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-deliveries","tag-frustrated","tag-growing","tag-increasingly","tag-late","tag-navy","tag-report","tag-ship","tag-weapons"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1804362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1804365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}