Roughead: Navy To Tweak Ship Designs, Configurations For Arctic

By Dan Taylor / November 10, 2010 at 5:33 PM
The diminishing ice in the Arctic will force the Navy to make adjustments to how ships are designed and configured to handle cold weather, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead said at the National Press Club in Washington today. “We have to, in the next few years, begin to look at what we do with regards to ship design,” Roughead said during a discussion on the future of U.S. naval forces. “Not to turn every Navy ship into an...

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