The Navy’s New DDG(X) Destroyer Might Be ‘Sinking’ Fast

National Security Journal ^ | 8/27/2024 | Brent M. Eastwood

[whyilovetexas111]

You may be familiar with the debate about aircraft carriers – that they are too expensive to buy and maintain. Perhaps the aircraft carrier is obsolete, and the Navy should focus on building more frigates and destroyers.

Yet another debate is brewing up involving the DDG(X) program, in which the Navy wants to build a new class of guided missile destroyers by the 2030s.

And, sadly for the Navy, this new warship class is getting its share of bad press and doubtful commentary.

[Bonemaker]

“Is Boeing now in the ship building business ???”

Worse..the Union government.

[pfflier]

No

[Alter Kaker]

If they don’t get serious about drone and missile defenses, there’s no point in building targets.

[wny]

they would have been beauties...

[Leaning Right]

> This article is about what they used to call a Guided Missile Cruiser. The article calls it a Guided Missile Destroyer. <

I read somewhere years ago that Congress put all sorts of burdensome equipment requirements on new cruisers. The Navy got around that by calling new cruisers “destroyers” instead.

I don’t know how accurate that is. But given how idiotic Congress can be, I can certainly see it being true.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What they should do to save money is copy the "successful" F-35 program. They can make a ship, that with just a bit of extra money, can be converted into either an aircraft carrier, a littoral craft, a destroyer, or a coast guard cutter.

That's the ticket!

[PIF]

We should save a bunch and just sub the building out to China.

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China has 225 times the US shipbuilding capacity.

[Sequoyah101]

No need for help. Bureau of Ships and the rest of the Navy seem to be screwing up just fine by themselves. Looks like they have taken lessons from the Air Farce who can’t get even a trainer in the air in less than a decade or more which is to say nothing for tankers or the F-35.

[PGR88]

Corruption and incompetence is the feature of an empire in its last days.

Its elite entitlement and looting the public under the guise of status and law.

Seems to describe 2024 Washington DC pretty well.

[Red Badger]

We should go 100% submarines..............

[BenLurkin]

South Korea.

[Bonemaker]

You just know there sre hostiles with elegant weapon systems dedicated exclusively to our carriers.

[rexthecat]

“Perhaps the aircraft carrier is obsolete...” It is, and has been, for years.

Right on the money. Our admirals continue to prepare for Midway.

[ken in texas]

- China has 225 times the US shipbuilding capacity. -

That could be, but what is their policy regarding equal employment opportunities for transgenders? /sarc

[doorgunner69]

nice summary

[Bonemaker]

There goes support.

[jeffersondem]

When asked about the most effective naval destroyer, Vice President Harris said: “a hula hoop with a nail in it.”

[Sequoyah101]

Carriers out of range of chicom anti ship missiles? Probably not possible since the chicoms now have ballistic anti-ship capability. The navy touts how hard it has been to sink a carrier like the Kitty Hawk in tests and that they had to go cut holes in it to eventually sink it. You don't have to sink a carrier to put it out of action.

Nobody ever learns not to fight the last war again.

[doorgunner69]

Yeah, that was it.

I expect this new program will go about the same way.

MIC always sells the brass on their newest whiz bang systems that never mature and limit procurement.

[Salman]

It’s not “our” navy in any meaningful sense, except we pay for it.