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Keeping up with China: US Navy orders $22 billion worth of submarines

Hong Kong (CNN)The US Navy on Monday awarded its most expensive shipbuilding contract ever, more than $22.2 billion worth of the world's most advanced submarines. The massive contract for nine nuclear-powered, Virginia class attack submarines comes just months after the head of the US Navy in the Pacific warned of a massive Chinese naval buildup and his trouble in getting enough submarines to counter it.

The deal "marks the US Navy's latest response to China's growing military power and aggressive actions in the Western Pacific," said Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center. [...] Virginia class submarines are the US Navy's key multi-mission undersea platform. They are capable of fighting other submarines, surface ships and land targets, as well as conducting special operations including intelligence gathering and reconnaissance.

Eighteen of the subs are already in the Navy's fleet with another 10 in various stages of construction. [...] The new submarines are scheduled for delivery between 2025 and 2029, the Navy said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/03/polit...index.html

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