[C19fan]

The current carriers being constructed are $4 billion a unit. Also worries me that there is so much new technology. Usually projects like that end up bad or have huge cost overruns.

[DesScorp]

"The current carriers being constructed are $4 billion a unit."

No sir. The Nimitz ships were $4 billion (except for the last one, which was around $6 billion). The Ford class being constructed right now was projected at $13.5 billion in 2011, and is now running at about $15 billion. The Navy says the price will come down on subsequent Fords, but I don't believe them. The price never comes down in situations like this. We're either pricing ourselves right out of a Navy, or we're simply going to pay for it all with Weimar-style hyperinflated dollars from the printing press.

[DesScorp]

"The current carriers being constructed are $4 billion a unit."

No sir. The Nimitz ships were $4 billion (except for the last one, which was around $6 billion). The Ford class being constructed right now was projected at $13.5 billion in 2011, and is now running at about $15 billion. The Navy says the price will come down on subsequent Fords, but I don't believe them. The price never comes down in situations like this. We're either pricing ourselves right out of a Navy, or we're simply going to pay for it all with Weimar-style hyperinflated dollars from the printing press.