With an Maneuver Support Vessel - Heavy competition on the horizon, the service is also working on the smaller MSV-L but is rebaselining the program to address design changes and increasing costs.
WASHINGTON: At least three shipyards that do work for the US Navy have bought and used drydocks from China. This would seem to lower the stakes for Huntington-Ingalls Industries, currently searching for a Chinese drydock of its own with help from homestate Senator Thad Cochran, as reported yesterday in the Washington Post. BAE Systems’ San Diego yard […]
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