I wrote a little while ago about the Navy’s Zumwalt class destroyers and their cost. I thought the news on these floating turds couldn’t get any worse. I was wrong. The lead ship of the class costing over 9 billion dollars looks like this.
Yes, that’s rust. That ship was commissioned five years ago. So that’s how it would look representing the United States pulling into a foreign port. I doubt any adversary would be impressed or frightened. According to the Navy there is no chance it will be leaving to sail the world any time soon. Here is the Navy’s latest statement.
“As of September 2020, the Navy plans to request $169 million to install its four new systems on at least one or more DDG 1000 ships and would need to request further funding to complete the remaining ships’ systems. Though the Navy plans to fully mature these technologies by ship integration, the integration will not occur until several years after the Navy plans to achieve initial operational capability in December 2021. As a result, the DDG 1000 class ships will remain incomplete and incapable of performing their planned mission until at least 2025.”
So now we know where a tiny portion of the 768 billion dollar defense budget is going. Once again I wonder why we spend so much time worrying about the cost of government programs that benefit our fellow citizens and so little about the bloated costs of our defense expenses.
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