Posted on 11/07/2016 5:47:10 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
$800,000 a round? You can build a very nice, very deluxe house in most of the country for that kind of money. Three car garage, pool. The works.
btt
Sad.
We are on the road to becoming Venezuela.
5.56mm
But the Muzzies are well funded and armed. I’m surprised out military has anything short of queers - apologies to the good and bad warrior class.
Also, FYI? All 22 of the spare barrels the Navy had have been scrapped back in 2011-2014. We literally do not even have a barrel to start building a 16” gun with.
Yes he did.
What exactly does a 16” HE shell entail, from a manufacturing point of view?
I mean, if the Democrat fairy godmother were to wave her magic wand, and remove all guns from the face of the earth tomorrow, how hard, in this day and age, would it be, to start making them again.
Yea, I know, any ship in mothballs or museum berths are gonna take some effort and expense to recommission.
that wasn’t really my point.
I’m an IT nerd going back to when Algore invented the internet. Those of us from that time, and perhaps from those that came after, and probably predates me by a wide margin, had a saying.
When high tech fails - Low tech RULES!
I was only trying to point out, that there are less expensive ways to throw projectiles downrange. We humans have been doing it for many millennia.
$800K a pop! What commander wants to be on the hook for that kind of expenditure? What kind of paperwork and review will be involved? And how many in the magazine?
Not to mention: will it work as advertised?
I’m cynical. In this day and age, can you blame me?
Ike warned us about the dangers of the Military/Industrial complex; He was right.
And God help us - Hillary wants control of it.
Just answering the question of what it cost to shoot a 16” shell.
ANY project that Kelly Johnson or Ben Rich headed came in below budget and generally ahead of schedule.
yeah but it can be fixed with a z gram and longer hair...
“What does a 16” HE Naval Rifle Slug, and associated powder bags, cost?”
It’s the battleship to wrap around that gun that is expensive.
IIRC, the C-141 Starlifter was delivered under budget and ahead of schedule.
yeah that happened with cars in the 50’s too
“Aptly named “Zumwalt” class, after one of the worst CNOs in U.S. Navy history.”
And they are going to name the second one the Lyndon B. Johnson. I didn’t know you could name a naval vessel after a POS? Oh wait, Zumwalt, they already did.
I suppose the #3 will be the Mabus!
Amazing.
Now, here is a way we could legitimately cut defense spending.
A Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate, too.
Priceless!
Instead of rails guns, I’d prefer nail guns. Not for the ship, but for the procurement process. And the procurers.
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