Meets our specs, we can monitor it’s construction for shortcuts, we can add technology we may not want Spain or anyone else to know about, and it will use American workers instead of Spanish. What I don’t understand is why can’t we design our own ships of the line anymore?
We can. Eight years of malfeasance by the Kenyan Usurper put us seriously behind the curve. The "littoral combat ships" were supposed to be our new frigates. They're floating monuments to stupidity, and completely useless. We need frigates. Now. We can either start from scratch, or start with an existing design. Some of the existing European designs are quite good. Using them will get us the frigates we need, sooner.