No US Icebreakers Working As USCGC Healy Limps Home
With one icebreaker down, the US has one left in port -- with no new ships scheduled to arrive for years.
With one icebreaker down, the US has one left in port -- with no new ships scheduled to arrive for years.
US official: "We can expect the rapidly changing Arctic system to create greater incentives for the Kremlin and the PRC to pursue agendas that clash with the interests of the United States."
WASHINGTON: The Commandant of the Coast Guard is “very confident” US shipyards can build the country’s first icebreaker in 20 years for less than the standard eye-watering $1 billion estimate. Adm. Paul Zukunft dismissed the idea of cutting costs by buying abroad, a toxic concept for Congress. And he publicly pondered a National Academy of Sciences proposal to […]