Show me a military program that has ever managed to stay on budget and as conceived. I have never heard of one, but there must be one or two out there somewhere.
>>>Show me a military program that has ever managed to stay on budget
It’s not just a question of simply staying in budget, though taking an oversized patrol boat and making it cost as much as a cruiser is an impressive feat in itself. But it’s more a matter of just making the darn thing WORK, and doing so for a cost that permits more then two to be built.
As I said, I was only looking for corvette or DE type ships with a few missiles. That shouldn’t be impossible, and no way they should have so totally mismanaged the program with nothing to show for it.
The LCS will end up one of the greatest procurement disasters in US military history, certainly in terms of the Navy and in terms of post-WW II. (Both the ships and the “mission modules.”
Hard to compare with stuff like the A-12 that never had hardware, but it’s bad.
This is one case where I wish the mass media was a bit more investigative, instead of just publishing happy horse**** stories they’re fed about how cool and fast they are and how they’ll chase pirates.
Out in the operational navy, pretty much any officer from O-6 on down will freely talk about the LCS being useless in private.
The design and the requirements for the ship were deeply flawed from the start.