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Online rangerrebew

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$24,000,000,000 Wasted: The Navy's Zumwalt-Class Stealth Destroyer Nightmare Won't End
« on: November 04, 2024, 01:14:28 pm »
$24,000,000,000 Wasted: The Navy's Zumwalt-Class Stealth Destroyer Nightmare Won't End
 
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What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyers, initially praised for their stealth and advanced technology, have become an expensive misstep. Despite their $24.5 billion cost, these ships face persistent functionality and performance issues, leading the Pentagon to consider adding hypersonic weapons and lasers to salvage the platform.
 

-Instead, focusing on long-range hypersonics deployed via submarines would better address evolving threats in contested waters. Some experts recommend retiring the Zumwalts, emphasizing taxpayer value and prioritizing effective defense solutions.

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Re: $24,000,000,000 Wasted: The Navy's Zumwalt-Class Stealth Destroyer Nightmare Won't End
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2024, 01:15:51 pm »
I thought it was supposed to be the greatest ship since the Monitor. :whistle:
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The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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Re: $24,000,000,000 Wasted: The Navy's Zumwalt-Class Stealth Destroyer Nightmare Won't End
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2024, 01:27:49 pm »
$24B is sunk costs (pun intended).  There's no getting it back.  Use the ships for target practice and artificial reefs.  Fire the project manager and the procurement manager.

The US Navy needs to stop pissing away taxpayer money on sucky ships.
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Re: $24,000,000,000 Wasted: The Navy's Zumwalt-Class Stealth Destroyer Nightmare Won't End
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2024, 02:09:16 pm »
Totally agree.  Target practice.
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