Admiral Sonny Masso
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 23 Dec
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Well, thank you for the opportunity to comment on this.
And we are so excited about the Golden Fleet.
What is profound about this is that over the past 20 years or so, I think the Navy's been timid in asking for what they needed more than for just settling for something that was just as good.
So I think the announcement that the president made with respect to the battleship and everything else is so spot on.
And I'd like to give some credit to the director of the OMB, Mr. Russell Vogt.
because he is a champion and he has been inspired by our president.
But in addition, he's assembled a really quality team of experts, including a gentleman named Jerry Hendricks, who's written some amazing books.
And he's a real strategist, Elbridge Colby, who's a friend of your program.
But for us, this is something that is very exciting to us on so many levels to extend even to the deal the president brokered with Finland to help us in the icebreaker business.
Our icebreakers were Coast Guard ships, Polar Sea, Polar Star.
They were more than 65 years old.
They were tired girls, did God's work for a continuous amount of time.
But the Finns are going to build us 11, and that's going to be exactly what we need to do the things that we need to do as a Navy, particularly up in the pole.
Well, you know, again, as you said, it was inspirational.
And again, the Navy was afraid to ask for something as robust, but as necessary as this new battleship and command and control platform might be.
And one of the things that was very inspirational was that he gets the fact that new weapons systems and thus new propulsion systems on our ships have to be designed and developed.
So we're talking about bringing hypersonic missiles.
We're talking about railgun.
We're talking about laser-guided missiles that will be propelled or given the power generation from electric drive propulsions and some unique ways forward so that just as 50 years ago when we were on the Paula Foster, the transition was from 1,200-pound steam to gas turbine.
And so I think we'll see a heuristic approach in propulsion, which will allow us to—
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