The U.S. Navy isn’t ready to repair ships that suffer damage in battle. The fleet lacks the parts, processes, plans and—perhaps most critically—the shipyard capacity to fix ships fast and send them back into battle.
The Navy isn’t ready today. If the American and Chinese fleets met in battle and U.S. ships swallowed a few Chinese missiles, the Navy would struggle to fix those ships in time for them to rejoin the fighting, the GAO found.
“Officials from multiple organizations in the Navy’s regular maintenance functions, salvage community and the fleets have responsibilities within the battle damage repair process and told us that the roles and responsibilities for assessing, developing and conducting battle damage repair are not always clear.”
The fleet to a great extent also counts on contractors to tow damaged ships. That’s not a problem in peacetime. But in wartime, civilian tugboat crews might be reluctant to sail into an active battle zone.
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