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原文地址：Navy warship production hits 25-year low, falls behind China: report
新闻日期：2024-08-11
美国海军造舰产量创25年新低，落后于竞争对手中国。
长期担任海军分析师的埃里克·劳布斯（Eric Labs）在接受ABC新闻采访时说：“我不见得能找到快捷、简单的解决方案来摆脱这个问题，这是一个花费了很长时间的问题。”他还表示，“美国海军的造舰状况现在非常糟糕。”
报告指出，由于近期设计更改、成本超支和招聘及留任员工方面存在的问题，海军造舰能力受到了限制。这些挑战与美国面临的全球性海上威胁相叠加。
中国海军的造舰能力是美国的200多倍——据美国海军情报局（ONI）去年发布的数据显示，快速扩张中的中国海军造舰速度比美国快200倍。“中国认为这一十年是一个战略机遇期。”海军战争和先进技术中心国防基金会高级研究员布莱恩特·萨德勒（Brent Sadler）在接受福克斯新闻数码采访时说，“我不见得能在短期内看到产量差距缩小。”
面对问题，海军表示正在寻找「创造性解决方案」。国防部发言人李特·汉顿（Kyle Hanton）表示：“我们的角色是捍卫我们国家和促进和平，这个作用从未如此重要或意义重大。”他还说，“我们将继续与行业伙伴合作，寻找解决共同挑战的创意方案。”
原文摘要：
Navy shipbuilding has had its worst production in 25 years, putting the U.S. behind rival China in production pace. “I don’t see a fast, easy way to get out of this problem. It’s taken us a long time to get into it,” Eric Labs, a longtime naval analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, told ABC News, adding that the Navy’s shipbuilding was now in “a terrible state. The comments come as last-minute design changes, cost overruns, and an inability to recruit and retain employees to build ships has slowed production at the same time the U.S. faces expanding global threats at sea. CHINESE SHIPBUILDING CAPACITY OVER 200 TIMES GREATER THAN US, NAVY INTELLIGENCE SAYS The ABC News report cites a Marinette Marine contract as just one of the many examples of the struggles of the Navy to meet production. According to the report, the shipmaker is under contract to build six guided-missile frigates with an option to build four more, but with its current workforce can only produce one ship per year. Issues such as the one faced by Marinette Marine have been widespread throughout the country, with shipyards turning to creative solutions such as offering training academies or partnering with technical colleges to get more workers the skills they need to build the Navy’s high-tech vessels. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro has touted such programs, the report notes, even speaking during the commencement for recent graduates at a community college that partnered with Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to teach students to repair nuclear submarines. “It is incumbent upon all of us to consider how we can best lend our talents and, in the case of the graduates, their newly developed skills, to build up our great nation for all Americans, and defend against the threats and challenges of today,” he said at the ceremony. CCP-TIED EV COMPANY BACKED BY DEMS BUYS UP MICHIGAN LAND MILES FROM US MILITARY BASES Part of the $100 million in Navy funding provided to Marinette Marine is being used for retention bonuses, underscoring the importance of retaining a shipbuilding workforce. The report also notes that much of the blame is with the Navy itself, which frequently changes the design requirements of ships after companies have begun construction. Yet despite vows to learn from those mistakes, the Navy redesigned 85% of the ships being built by Marinette Marine, resulting in cost increases and delays. The report comes after a U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) slide leaked online showed last year that the rapidly expanding Chinese Navy has the capacity to produce ships at 200 times the rate of the United States. “The Chinese see this decade as a strategic opportunity,” Brent Sadler, senior research fellow for naval warfare and advanced technology in the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital at the time. “I don’t see any near-term bending of the curve where we actually start closing the gap with the Chinese.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP But the Navy said it is taking the problem seriously, with a spokesperson for Del Toro telling ABC News that the service is looking for more “creative solutions” to the problem. “The Navy’s role in defending our nation and promoting peace has never been more expansive or mattered more,” said Lt. Kyle Hanton. “We continue to work with our industry partners to identify creative solutions to solving our common challenges.” The Navy did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
