The U.S. Navy Wasted A Whole Decade Building Bad Ships

[rangerrebew]

The U.S. Navy Wasted A Whole Decade Building Bad Ships
 
David Axe Forbes Staff
 

The U.S. Navy spent a decade in the early 2000s building warships that either don’t work, cost too much to build in large numbers or whose designs are fundamentally flawed on a conceptual level. Or all three.

These floating lemons include the speedy, inshore Littoral Combat Ship and the huge, under-equipped DDG-1000 “stealth” destroyers.

Historians might spend decades debating exactly what drove Navy leaders to pour billions of dollars into these ships for precious little return on their investment.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/01/05/the-us-navy-wasted-a-whole-decade-building-bad-ships/?sh=221ef4a354e9

[rangerrebew]

Is this the same Navy that sh*tcanned Captain Crozier for trying to warn them about COVID and now claims to be a superstar in dealing with it?  

[ironhorsedriver]

One problem is to many High Ranking Officers are politicians, not warriors.

[Fishrrman]

iron horse wrote:
"One problem is to many High Ranking Officers are politicians, not warriors."

Under the coming communist rule, expect the numbers of "politicized officers" to skyrocket -- along with the introduction of "political" officers as well.