Navy's next-generation Zumwalt destroyers years from completion as worldwide tensions heat up

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Navy's next-generation Zumwalt destroyers years from completion as worldwide tensions heat up

By Greg Norman

Published May 24, 2018
FoxNews.com

It’s the U.S. Navy’s most expensive shipbuilding project ever – and it seemingly still has no end in sight.

As tensions are flaring across the world, ranging from Chinese involvement in the South China Sea to Russia’s heightened naval presence in parts of Europe – none of the three sleek-looking ships in the Navy’s Zumwalt class are ready for battle.

“The program never really had a good business case from the beginning, so where we are at now isn’t a surprise,” Shelby Oakley, an acting director at the Government Accountability Office, told Fox News.



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/24/navys-next-generation-zumwalt-destroyers-years-from-completion-as-worldwide-tensions-heat-up.html

[Fishrrman]

I think they should go back to a more traditional design, and propulsion system also...