Reminds me of those littoral combat ships that were built in Alabama and were garbage quality — loads of problems and can’t even defend themselves. Navy tried to stop spending on them but Congressman Bradley Byrne from Alabama keeps forcing it in to the budget.
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Yep, eerily similar. It's not even clear what these ships are supposed to do well.
Nah, Kegseth just needed more booze money.
I'm pretty sure that's just the inevitable consequence of decades of under-regulated capitalism and cronyism letting the arms dealers set their own prices and conditions.
Personally, I consider the most bloated military in the history of the world not being able to expand or even replace its flotilla a huge win though, regardless of the reasons 🤷
Let's see if the coast guard is happy with the new patrol ship once one of those are finished. If the coast guard fails too, pretty entertaining incompetence
This is such an incredibly dumb decision. This was going to be the direction the navy went in - more vessels that are capable in aggregate, but no single one as too big of a target. Datalink handoff. Sensor fusion.
But they’re probably gonna make a new class of battleship or something idiotically obsolete like that.
Sure, you know everyone's favorite ship, the aircraft carrier, well wait till you meet the drone carrier! It's just as big for some reason, but it mostly carries drones and guided missiles and it probably sails alongside a traditional carrier, because it can't actually perform all of the same duties. This is how we'll be able to spend more than ever before.
They'll start down that path, spend billions on starting up the program, then a new president comes in and cancels that to return to the smaller ship philosophy and spends billions to start down that path again.
Export more manufacturing industries
If they built the amphibious assault ships to look like this, then they could fill them with Cybertrucks and anytime the US invaded a country it would be horrific and comical at the same time.
Now playing in Venezuela: "The Bay of Cyberpigs".
Good. Hope they stop building death ships all together and are forced to have bake sales for more.
I do wonder what the advent of drone warfare, including the marine drones used in the black sea against Russia, and the Taiwanese investment in drones for defense against China, has done to impact the outlook and priorities of the US Navy. It may very well be that it has changed the assessment of whether to purchase large expensive ships.
don't worry, they'll spend that $ somewhere for sure
Oh I'm not worried about that. I'm sure they will find more modern ways to murder.
Maybe they could use the boat materials to build some sort of arch. A triumphant arch.
DOUBLE arches, in keeping with the administration.
Sounds like may every engineering project I've worked on.