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Why the US Navy must look to allies if it wants to catch up to China at sea

🇭🇰 public Hong Kong · · 174 words · By Seong Hyeon Choi
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Why the US Navy must look to allies if it wants to catch up to China at sea To close gap with Chinese fleet, analysts say the US must outsource shipbuilding to South Korea and Japan – but the move risks backlash The US budget submission for the next financial…

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Why the US Navy must look to allies if it wants to catch up to China at sea To close gap with Chinese fleet, analysts say the US must outsource shipbuilding to South Korea and Japan – but the move risks backlash The US budget submission for the next financial…

Why it matters

USNI News, the news service of the US Naval Institute, reported that the study would look at the feasibility of adopting or co-producing advanced hulls such as Japan’s Mogami-class and South Korea’s Daegu-class frigates to supplement the US Navy’s…

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Troy Stangarone, a visiting senior fellow focusing on defence industrial issues at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), said the cancellation of the Constellation-class frigates was “symptomatic of the challenges for US defence procurement”.

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Claim 1: “USNI News, the news service of the US Naval Institute, reported that the study would look at the feasibility of adopting or co-producing advanced hulls such as Japan’s Mogami-class and South Korea’s Daegu-class frigates”
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Two independent sources (USNI News via 'Why the US Navy must look to allies...' and The Korea Times) specifically report that USNI News stated the study would examine the feasibility of adopting or co-producing Japan's Mogami-class and South Korea's Daegu-class frigates.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Constellation class of multi-mission guided-missile frigates of the United States Navy is based on the Italian Navy's version of the European multipurpose frigate or FREMM. Constellation follows t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation-class_frigate
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (Japanese: 海上自衛隊, Hepburn: Kaijō Jieitai), abbreviated JMSDF (海自, Kaiji), also simply known as the Japanese Navy, is the navy branch of the Japan Self-Defense For…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Fo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — List of active ships of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is a list of ships in active service with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. The JMSDF is one of the world's largest navies, and the s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Japan_Maritime_…
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Claim 2: “Troy Stangarone, a visiting senior fellow focusing on defence industrial issues at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), said the cancellation of the Constellation-class frigates was “symptomatic of the challenges for US defence procurement””
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Two independent web sources confirm that Troy Stangarone of the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI) commented on the cancellation of the Constellation-class frigate program as being symptomatic of US defense procurement challenges.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), has maintained a complex relationship with the United Nations (UN) since its founding in 1948. Initially opposing the concept …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_and_North_Korea
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Korean Americans (Korean: 한국계 미국인) are Americans who have full or partial Korean ethnic ancestry. While the broader term Overseas Korean in America (미주한인/재미교포/재미한인) may refer to all ethnic Koreans res…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Americans
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 7 February 2016, South Korea announced consultations over the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, which was officially announced to be implemented on 8 July 2016. …
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Claim 3: “The US budget submission for the next financial year includes US$1.85 billion for a study on outsourcing parts of the design and construction of frigates and destroyers”
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Three independent web sources (Breaking Defense, The National Interest, and The Korea Times/House report) all confirm that the US budget request for Fiscal Year 2027 includes $1.85 billion for a study on outsourcing warship design and construction.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — .us is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States. It was established in February 1985. Registrants of us domains must be U.S. citizens, residents, or organizations – or …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Us, us, uS, or US commonly refers to: Us (pronoun), the objective case of the English first-person plural pronoun we U.S., an abbreviation for the United States Us, us, uS, or US may also refer to:
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