And here now, I also thought about having some hulls built over in those countries in those areas where we were a little deficient. But China today builds over 1700 ships a year. We build about five. They're all military ships. We had at the start of the century, we had twice as many warships as China. China passed us in 2021. That gap is continuing to expand. (07:44–07:53)
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