[whyilovetexas111]

Can't the navy actually get something right? I feel like every day I read about a big warship-class mistake they made those costs us all billions of dollars.

[srmanuel]

Is Boeing now in the ship building business ???

[ClearCase_guy]

Weapon system acquisition is largely about transferring money from taxpayers to defense contractors. Actually acquiring weapon systems is not the focus.

[wildcard_redneck]

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

[3RIVRS]

Anyone like this author, who thinks the is “plenty” of time between now and 2032 to work out the kinks in a first of class ship acquisition program doesn’t know squat about first of class ship acquisition programs.

[butlerweave]

Building them from recycled razor blades and tin cans ?

[hillarys cankles]

After reading that article, I have no doubt the Navy will end up ordering a couple dozen of those things, wasting tens of billions of dollars. The govt doesn’t care about how much money they waste. Theres no reason to do the right thing, just whatever will fatten up their buddies pocketbooks.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Hey, all that matters is that the defense contractors get their cost-plus contracts! Nothing else matters.

[desertsolitaire]

Is our weapons procurement process so dysfunctional that we cannot do better? It is not always better to have a few very very expensive shiny weapons and hope they all work and don’t get destroyed right away than to have oodles of capable weapons and a military strategy and leader who inspires recruits to join. I’m not even sure that forcibly drafting people would improve the numbers and quality if the potential draftees don’t respect how the military is run to begin with.

[Bonemaker]

Didn’t we just hear Navy took 14 ships of the line out of service in Pacific ostensibly due to lack of manpower?

[doorgunner69]

Is that the new destroyer they can’t afford any rounds for the single gun it has??

[Jim Noble]

Build the Montana class.

Perfect for Yemen.

[Getready]

Could a MOAB detonated at above 500 feet up, disable a destroyer or frigate?

[Carriage Hill]

“Perhaps the aircraft carrier is obsolete...”

It is, and has been, for years.

[Alter Kaker]

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

[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!

[Red Badger]

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

[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.

[Salman]

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

[alternatives?]

I remember reading the British admirals were not happy their new battleships couldn’t keep up with the equivalent USA battleships in heavy seas at the start of WWII. Just another sign of a failing empire.

The Airforce had a very effective airship in the warthog, but it wasn’t what they wanted.