Why am I not surprised about this?
“Although Congress had directed otherwise, the U.S. Navy in early 2024 ordered all further work on the ships to stop and they were placed on the decommissioning list.”
Congress, like the President, has no power when it comes to MIC profits.
“They are being replaced in the air warfare commander role by new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, only one of which currently is in service.“
I hope each is replaced by the Flight III Arleigh Burkes as they go out of service.
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Can anyone, anywhere, do anything, on time, on budget and right? Anymore?
Take that She (and Putin)!!!!
We don’t need no Navy ships because WE ARE AMERICA and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!
As it is, China’s hypersonics will likely ‘retire’ our navy vessels ever faster than the brass intends, given the boneheads in the White House.
Reality intrudes. In this modern technological era, naval surface combatants, land armored vehicles and helicopters over the battlefield are obsolete coffins. If there is to be war, it will have to be rethought. Ground shoulders will have to be shielded by anti detection devices or put another way high tech gilley suits.
Seems like they need to do ships the way they do C-130’s; keep the platform and just bolt in new guts.
If the Burke hull has worked this long, why spend billions on new boondoggles?
Down with men of war, up with WOKE!
I would just like to add to this thread something that was reported in another article about the U.S. Navy ship building industry recenently. A group of Navy officers together with some executives in U.S. companies that work on building U.S. navy ships, madde a visit to South Korea recently. They said they were amazed at how modern was the Korean naval shipbuilding industry, with so much more technology, automation and efficiencies than our American shipbuilding works.
But that makes sense to me. Our naval shipbuilding efforts and aircraft building efforts as well, have gotten fat, lazy and “old” with a Congress that has failed to demand those industries advance, just handed them the money, while in little South Korea they cannot afford to be running 19XX military industry businesses in 2024. Actually, we cannot afford it either, and now when we can afford it least it will take more investment to get our shipbuilding industry modernized.
“Flight III Arleigh Burke-class” are actually Cruisers by any definition.
Seriously, 35 years is a long time for a hull. Ship designations don't mean the same as they used to because the means to meet the mission have changed so much in those 35 years. Sometimes the crystal ball works fine, others (LCS, I'm looking at YOU) well, the execution falls short of what was probably not that great an idea to begin with.