40% of U.S. Navy Nuclear Attack Submarines Are Out of Service — Not Because of War, but Because America’s Shipyards Can’t Fix Them

40% of U.S. Navy Nuclear Attack Submarines Are Out of Service — Not Because of War, but Because America’s Shipyards Can’t Fix Them

America’s Naval Shipyards Run on WWII-Era Infrastructure — The CBO Says Labor Shortages Will Persist for the Next 25 Years About 40 percent of all US Navy attack submarines are out of service due to maintenance delays, according to the US Naval Institute’s report. In essence, nearly half of the Navy’s essential underwater strike capability has been sidelined during peacetime. This isn’t caused by a major war, but by ongoing neglect from the US g…