>>>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.
Sometimes I wonder what the Navy brass is smoking.
They decommissioned and SANK the entire Spruance class, even though they were no where near the end of their service life and could have been mothballed...
They keep building these hugemungous carriers, each bigger and fancier than the last, even though their very size limits the number they can buy and makes them priority targets...
They are running out of submarines with the Los Angeles class getting long in the tooth and no real options for producing more now that most of the yards that built subs are out of business...
The only ship class that seems to be doing exactly what it is supposed to do, within budget, is the Burke class. The last I heard, the Navy wants to can the LCS and start building more Burkes.
That is such a great, common sense idea, it has absolutely no chance of ever happening.