US Navy's 30-year shipbuilding plan reflects the Pentagon's big-fleet strategy

摘要

The US Navy (USN) released its long-delayed 30-year shipbuild-ing plan on 10 December 2020 with a future fleet architecture that echoes the Pentagon plan detailed earlier this year as part of the Department of Defense's 'Battle Force 2045'. The Pentagon in February told Congress it was withholding the mandatory Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels until it had finished the Future Naval Force Study (FNFS), which was examining competitive advantage in great-power military competition through 2045. The new USN shipbuilding plan tries to retain the long-deck aircraft carrier fleet, eye the development of light carriers, fund Columbia-class strategic submarines, significantly aug-ment the number of Virginia-class attack submarines, and substantially increase the num-ber of unmanned systems.