Comment by bell-cot
1 year ago
Note that, historically, the US Navy had plenty of its own shipyards, and did produce many of its own ships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:United_States_Navy_sh...
But that's mostly been "optimized away" in more-recent times, in the name of Capitalism and Campaign Donations.
>did produce many of its own ships.
Problem is that we're talking about how it works currently. US also used to send its own specifically owned spacecrafts into space. But it hasn't in ages.