I'm John Bachelor and Jerry Hendricks is here with an article about the submarine

industrial base that is the answer to the Chinese Russian threat that we see bragging

about itself in the meeting in Beijing about working together, a 7,000 word document that mentions nuclear weapons.

Bragging.

So we have the answer.

It's the submarine fleet.

What does the submarine fleet need?

I've written down all my notes very quickly Jerry and

I tell you shipyards, docks, dry docks, and we need to revive all of the old players.

It's sort of like the band getting back together.

How much time do we have, Captain Hendricks?

The, the, if you're thinking about the Davidson window, we're already out of time.

So the Davidson window, you know, opened, you know, this year and it closes in about another

two and a half years. This is the peak time that Admiral Phil Davidson said that if there was a high likelihood that China would move against Taiwan.

So we're in the Davidson window now, so in many ways we're already too late.

So we need to address the two issues which was one how do we ramp production of new boats. Right now the the ship builders in Groton, Connecticut and Newport News, Virginia, those shipbuilders

are trying to ramp and they're ramping against a very high demand signal.

Congress would like to see us building three fast attack

boats a year.

Right now, we're averaging right around

one and a half boats per year.

I think it's 1.46 was the number that's been gently rising. There was a lot of problems with COVID. These again were very

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