[ClearCase_guy]

Thanks. I wish the US were more eager to spend money on next-generation surface ships. We're gonna need them, but they take years to design and build. The first DDG-1000 Destroyer is supposed to hit the water in 2012, last I heard. That seems far away, but what can you do?

[Jeff Head]

Add to that that they are cutting back the total number of DDX vessels to twelve, or as few as eight...and the concern grows. No matter how good they will be, and I have no doubts that they will be good...eight total ships means only 4-6 are deployed at any one time and that few can only cover so many bases.

Continue to write and raise cain with your reps...speak to others and have them do the same. Educate and make others aware. A whole lot of us need to be doing that if we are to make any difference short of abject disasters befalling us and then forcing the change in attitude.

[Strategerist]

Thanks. I wish the US were more eager to spend money on next-generation surface ships. We're gonna need them, but they take years to design and build. The first DDG-1000 Destroyer is supposed to hit the water in 2012, last I heard. That seems far away, but what can you do?

We're still cranking out DDG-51s and they're superior to anything China has now or building.