The Navy plans to build 51 manned battleforce ships over the next five years, according to the Biden administration's latest 30-year shipbuilding plan , a copy of which was obtained by Inside Defense. The much-anticipated plan offers Congress three “alternatives” depending on funding over the coming years -- two of which assume no real budget growth -- that, at the high end, could produce a battleforce fleet of 363 ships by 2045. In order to reach that 363 number,...
