"The Pentagon’s new submarine-building tsar, Robert Gaucher, s
peaking at the Sea Air Space conference on Tuesday (US time), said that in 2011, a Virginia-class submarine took 13 million man-hours to build, but today takes 70 million."
…………https://www.theage.com.au/world/nort...22-p5zpxw.html………
I wonder why the productivity of US submarine building yards has declined so dramatically. I guess COVID will be the stated reason, and its effect on loss on experienced workers, but this reported massive decline in building/construction efficiency is astounding.
Also, if COVID is to blame, how come it has not affected other countries, such as Chinese, Japanese, nor Korean ship building in same way?
COVID has turned out to be an excellent trial run for a weapon of mass destruction.