US Merchant Marine experts say this decision doesn’t take into account the age and status of the United State’s Military Sealift Command tanker fleet, which are the ships responsible for at-sea refueling of both ships and aircraft. Shipbuilding experts find it very unlikely that Austin will be able to find the funding or the shipyards need to build a fleet of merchant tankers with “equally advanced and resilient fueling capability.” [More]
They're assuming he actually wants to.
[Via Jess]
1 comment:
Well, if he did want to; we're broke and cannot afford them, and, if the dough were found they'd be built in some oddly third world place.
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