Earlier this year, the United States Navy outlined a bold proposal to grow its battle fleet -- to increase its size by 59%, in fact, to about 470 warships, including both crewed and uncrewed vessels. Big as that sounds, however, we now know the Navy is thinking even bigger. 

As USNI News reported late last month, the U.S. Navy has floated an even more ambitious proposal to grow the fleet to 523 ships, of which 373 would be crewed vessels, and 150 uncrewed -- robot warships. If Congress agrees to fund the expansion, the Navy could grow 77% in size over the next 20 years. 

And a whole lot of U.S. defense contractors will make a whole lot of money.

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