The US Navy Has Given Up On Its Goal Of A 500 Ship Navy

USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires an SM-2 missile.  

USNI News: Analyst Says Pentagon ‘Walked Away From the 500-ship Navy’ 

The Navy’s modest shipbuilding request as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 budget shows the Pentagon has “walked away from the 500-ship Navy,” a senior defense analyst said Tuesday. 

The Fiscal Year 2022 shipbuilding request is seeking $22.6 billion, a 3 percent drop from Fiscal Year’s 2021 shipbuilding total. 

The move from the Pentagon shows the department has walked away from the Trump administration’s plan for an expanded Navy, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Ferrari, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, said on Tuesday.  

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