A conversation occurred here on this site a few days ago about how difficult it is to build high-speed rail lines -- a sector I also spent time lobbying for in the mid-2000s. I commented here that it has become nearly impossible these days to build anything big -- from highways, to rail lines, to high-rise buildings (the new World Trade Center building cited as an example).
The United States used to be a country where the impossible was possible. Where big things could be built quickly, efficiently, and reasonably.
Unfortunately, it's not so much any more...
...and the Zumwalt-class destroyer is just the latest example.
If you think that high speed rail lines are something that should be built, then maybe you should rethink your understanding of cost/benefit calculations.
Yeah. I’m still hearing we can’t go back to the Moon.
I guess it’s because engineers are no longer taught to use slide rules...
Our military equipment designers and Pentagon staffers have created toys that are too tricked out to be affordable.
It’ll be stealthy as hell following it’s introduction to Khibiny. Ask the USS Scott.
I just read the first Zumwalt was broke down at the Panama Canal...
Friggin' idiots. Flush the toilet on them already.
Without any ammo for them.
“high-speed rail lines — a sector I also spent time lobbying for in the mid-2000s”
Willie Green, is that you???
Stealthy destroyer?
I’ll believe it when I don’t see it.
and as of today, they sTILL have no amunition foir the main guns...
In November 2016, the Navy moved to cancel procurement of the LRLAP, citing per-shell cost increases to $800,000–$1 million resulting from trimming of total ship numbers of the class. The Navy is monitoring research on alternative munitions, but since the AGS was tailor-made to use the LRLAP, modifications will be needed to accept different shells, which is unlikely to happen by the time the first Zumwalt vessel enters operational service in 2018, leaving it unable to fulfill the naval gunfire support role it was designed for.[73][74][75]