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unhappycamper

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4. We have been building $2.8 billion dollars Aegis-class destroyers for a while.

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Wed Feb 3, 2016, 08:11 AM

Feb 2016

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The USS Zumwalt comes in around $7.5 billion dollars, which seems to be the trend in all the new stuff we want to build.

The USS Gerald R Ford cost $13.9 billion dollars and is only 80% complete. (The Navy took delivery of her last year - no projection on when this will be complete.)

Nor have I seen anything about when the Navy is going to shock test Ford-class machines or Zumwalt-class machines or Littoral Combat Ships.

Ka-ching.

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The Navy's Colossal Stealth Destroyer Heads Out to Sea [View all] sarisataka Feb 2016 OP

Imagine if we put that kind of money into Kelvin Mace Feb 2016 #1

The Arleigh Burke DDGs are about as big as WWII era light cruisers Kaleva Feb 2016 #2

Because the navy re-defined the term "cruiser" in the late 60s. Angleae Feb 2016 #3

We have been building $2.8 billion dollars Aegis-class destroyers for a while. unhappycamper Feb 2016 #4