The United States cannot even produce the fifteen and sixteen-inch shells that the battleships of old used to attack. And that capacity is not coming back anytime soon
At this rate most of the them are going to be in a dock (or waiting for one) for the next decade because they're used much more extensively than their maintenance schedule allows
They can't maintain their carrier fleet either
At this rate most of the them are going to be in a dock (or waiting for one) for the next decade because they're used much more extensively than their maintenance schedule allows
Yeah the empire's seams are loosening and the carriers are the main mean of gunboat diplomacy.