【英文】美国军力评估报告：美国海军（36页）

英文研究报告 2021年11月08日 07:57 管理员

Navy routinely conducts war games, exercises, and simulations to assess this, but insight into its assessments is limited by their classi- fified nature. This Index therefore assesses capability based on remaining hull life, mission efectiveness, payloads, and the feasibility of maintaining the platform’s technological edge. Most of the Navy’s flfleet consists of older platforms; of the Navy’s 20 classes of ships, only eight are in production. However, across the Department of the Navy’s $211.7 billion FY 2022 budget,41 investment in future capability will see the largest real dollar increase ($2.5 billion) and relative increase (12.4 percent) over the previous year.42 The following are highlights by platform. Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN).

The Columbia-class will relieve the aging Ohio-class SSBN flfleet. Because of the implications of this for the nation’s strategic nuclear deterrence, the Columbia-class SSBN remains the Navy’s top acquisition priority. To ensure the continuity of this leg of the U.S. nuclear triad, the fifirst Columbia-class SSBN must be delivered on time for its fifirst deterrent patrol in 2031.43 To achieve this goal, the Navy signed a $9.47 billion contract in November 2020 with General Dynamics Electric Boat for the fifirst inclass boat and advanced procurement for longlead-time components of the second hull.44 Nuclear Attack Submarines (SSN). SSNs are multi-mission platforms whose stealth enables clandestine intelligence collection; surveillance; anti-submarine warfare (ASW); anti-surface warfare (ASuW); special operations forces insertion and extraction; land attack strikes; and ofensive mine warfare.