Well, that was a waste of money.
I thought the Brits learned in the Falklands that making a combat vessel out of aluminum wasn’t a good idea.
Well, that was a waste of money.
Make that a lot of money. Money available is not a bottomless pool. Between this and retrofitting ships and subs for diverse crews is money just plain blown to hell.
So, rather than say developing a new ICBM (The Minuteman was designed in the 60s), we spend money on fantasy.
But, not only that, it pushes back the timeline for having ships that actually work. A few corporations hired enough former DoD personnel as lobbyists and the rest is a sad history. The bunch of suckers living off the DC swamp is beyond what our nation can stand IMO. The satire movie “Pentagon Wars” is a commentary on how this stuff happens.