Originally Posted by Sniper
I was stationed on a Spruance class. They were interesting ships. Stationed on a floating drydock for a while too.

Anyway, how we build ships today is similar to how they built Rolls Royces for decades, all hand built.

We need to build them like Beetles, assembly line. Kaiser had that down for the Liberty ships back in WWII.

With all the CAD/CAM today there is zero reason why they cannot be built modularly and assembled in a reasonable amount of time, at least for the small boys, not sure about carriers but even those can benefit from this at least some.



I was on USS Fletcher and USS Ticonderoga. Ingalls built them modularly if that's a word. They were fast and went to the scrap heap too soon.