{"id":3050,"date":"2018-02-13T00:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2018-02-13T00:36:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T00:36:16","slug":"u-s-navy-wants-more-sailors-jet-and-an-extra-ship-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/13\/u-s-navy-wants-more-sailors-jet-and-an-extra-ship-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S NAVY WANTS MORE SAILORS, JET AND AN EXTRA SHIP IN 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/USS_Kidd_DDG_100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-519\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/USS_Kidd_DDG_100-1024x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/USS_Kidd_DDG_100-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/USS_Kidd_DDG_100-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/USS_Kidd_DDG_100-560x324.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/USS_Kidd_DDG_100-260x151.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/USS_Kidd_DDG_100-160x93.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Defence News<\/p>\n<p>By: David B. Larter<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy is getting larger and adding an extra ship to its fleet in 2019, over its 2018 request, but the total shipbuilding budget request seems to make little headway toward a 355-ship fleet called for in a review last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy\u2019s base budget request is $151.4 billion, with $15 billion in overseas contingency operations funding split with the Marine Corps. The total Department of the Navy budget request is $194.1 billion, including OCO.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the budget request represents a 7 percent bump over fiscal 2018, according to budget documents provided by the Navy. The service is asking for $21.9 billion for shipbuilding with a total of 10 ships, just one more than the nine requested in 2018. That number includes plans to buy two Virginia-class attack submarines, three Flight III Arleigh Burke destroyers and a single littoral combat ship.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced: US Navy<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/federal-budget\/2018\/02\/12\/navy-wants-to-add-sailors-jets-and-an-extra-ship-in-2019\/?utm_source=Facebook&amp;utm_medium=Socialflow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Defence News By: David B. Larter The U.S. Navy is getting larger and adding an extra ship to its fleet in 2019, over its 2018 request, but the total shipbuilding budget request seems to make little headway toward a 355-ship fleet called for in a review last year. The Navy\u2019s base budget request is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/13\/u-s-navy-wants-more-sailors-jet-and-an-extra-ship-in-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S NAVY WANTS MORE SAILORS, JET AND AN EXTRA SHIP IN 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[986],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","tag-u-s-navy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}