Navalists everywhere: the Navy needs more money to buy ships

The Navy: inactivates attack sub after spending 1.6B on repairs because they don’t have maintenance capacity

news.usni.org/2026/04/10/navy-to-inactivate-attack-boat-uss-boise-after-1-6b-repair-effort

April 10, 2026 - 23:07 UTC

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You're gonna love when the mro bill comes due for what this deployment and Southern Spear/Absolute Resolve costs in terms of repair and refit capacity
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I will in fact *not* love it lol
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the ran is very interested in this
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The navy needs to build many small, fast frigates with multiple CWIS mounts for fleet drone swarm defense.
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Trump hasn't fired nearly enough Admirals
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also needs to fire the entire Sentinel program office
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The entire facilities and equipment backlog of the defense health agency could be 100% covered by a third of what they spent on this boondoggle. JFC.
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If it's taking up space that could be used to finish outfitting a new Virginia or Columbia, this is the right call. Now there's good queations to be asked about why the capacity for this work is so scarce, but that's a very different question.
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Related questions. No incentive for commercial yards to want more competition. And DoD listens to them. Build more Navy yards. Subsidize commercial yards.
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🤦
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Who owns the IP for the Virginia class. Need some new submarine builders asap.
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Sub guys: “Dear Lord, I’ve seen what you’ve done for the Ticonderogas and I want you to do that for me.”
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