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9 Analysis of U.S. Current and Future Polar Icebreaking Needs
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... Coast Guard polar icebreaker fleet meets these needs Not all needs apply, or apply in the same manner, to the today and will meet them in the future. If the current polar Arctic and the Antarctic.
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... With current assets the United States has little ice- although until ice conditions improve in McMurdo Sound, it breaker capability to "repay" Canada in kind. is risky to depend on one ship, even a Polar class ship.
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... The United States must expected to provide assured access or environmental protec- have the reliably controlled ships to deal with the most diffition and do not provide the U.S. presence.


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