China Is Launching A New Aircraft Carrier Every 20 Months. The U.S. Navy Cannot Deliver One On Time — And The Gap Is The Shipyards.

China Is Launching A New Aircraft Carrier Every 20 Months. The U.S. Navy Cannot Deliver One On Time — And The Gap Is The Shipyards.

Why can’t the U.S. Navy build aircraft carriers and submarines fast enough to keep pace with China?  The answer is neither money nor will. It is that the United States has only two shipyards capable of building nuclear-powered warships, both are short of skilled workers and critical materials, and one of them is now so physically crowded that it cannot fit the next aircraft carrier into the yard. The Navy’s own fiscal 2027 budget book, released …