You may be thinking of the Zumwalt Destroyer — originally called DD(X). A few of those have been built and are at sea — but, yes, their primary armament (an advanced gun system) is problematic because of the cost of the ammo. This article is about what they used to call a Guided Missile Cruiser. The article calls it a Guided Missile Destroyer. These are planned but not built.
Every time I see something about new weapon systems, I think of the Bradley. I know the Pentagon Wars is not nearly accurate, but I would not doubt the real process was even worse.
> 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.
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.