Navy ‘Struggling’ to Modernize Aging Cruiser Fleet As Tight Budgets Push Pentagon to Shed Legacy Pla

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Navy ‘Struggling’ to Modernize Aging Cruiser Fleet As Tight Budgets Push Pentagon to Shed Legacy Platforms
By: Megan Eckstein
April 5, 2021 2:43 PM • Updated: April 5, 2021 6:44 PM


A plan to keep the Navy’s guided-missile cruiser fleet operating through the end of the 2030s is struggling as the ships show there’s a very real cost in time and money to keep old platforms around for the sake of having a larger fleet.

The Navy’s Ticonderoga-class cruisers pack a punch with their 122 vertical launching system cells packed with guided missiles, but today their most important role is hosting a carrier strike group’s air defense commander and staff during carrier strike group deployments.

The Navy has for almost two decades struggled to figure out what kind of platforms should replace these CGs as the air defense command ship for the carrier strike group, and several efforts have been canceled or postponed along the way. To buy more time to find a replacement, the Navy modernized 10 cruisers beginning in the 2000s to extend their lives and give them the newest combat capabilities. A second cruiser modernization program that began in 2015 aimed to do the same to seven more.

https://news.usni.org/2021/04/05/navy-struggling-to-modernize-aging-cruiser-fleet-as-tight-budgets-push-pentagon-to-shed-legacy-platforms

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WHAT "tight budgets"?

After all,ain't we inviting the entire 3rd world to come to American and retire in place in goobermint housing,eat free goobermint food,go to free goobermint schools,get treated for free at goobermint-controlled hospitals,etc,etc,etc.

Hell,for all *I* know,there are charity organizations using the tax breaks they get to pay these people to come.

After all,how else is a poor peon in a 3rd world country that can't even afford plumbing or electricity  suddenly be able to afford to take off with their children in tow and travel a thousand or more miles to get to our border,and then STILL have enough money to pay smugglers to get them across the border?

How are we doing all that if we have "tight" budgets?