U.S. Navy Buys $800K Per-Round Projectiles For Its $4 Billion Warship
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Back in May I reported on the latest boondoggle in development by the military-industrial complex: the USS Zumwalt. It is staggering even by the standards of a perpetually over-funded apparatus that evidently views the taxpayer with utter contempt. Such contempt seems to be on the rise as demonstrated by the recently admitted total failure of the Air Force’s F-35 program, as well as the creation of a multi-generational citizen debt with the AF’s 20-year, $100 billion project of stealth nuclear bombers.
The Navy’s USS Zumwalt is the lead player in a projected fleet of thirty-two, 610-foot warships that is the “largest and most technologically sophisticated destroyer” ever produced. At least that is prevailing tagline, and it certainly looks spiffy in the video below. However, in reality, the USS Zumwalt arrived into the hands of the Navy many years late and carrying a price tag of $4.4 billion with a reduced “fleet” now entailing just three ships. Three … and the other two are still in development.
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The original concept for the land-attack destroyer was floated more than 15 years ago then underwent several permutations. The final design called for a destroyer with a stealthy shape and advanced gun system that can fire rocket-propelled projectiles with pinpoint accuracy.
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