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"The Pentagon only managed to account for 39 percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets"
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Another attack submarine??? So soon after the utter disaster that the Seawolf Class was? Well if anything a project like that is a good way to burn tens of billions without doing a single second of work.
Also what happened to the Zumwalt class destroyer? Guess the Navy’s ugly little disaster is already on the chopping block before even having the first mainline ship laid down. To bad the project only costed 50 billion dollars of vanished money.
They planned like 50 of them, ultimately they will build 3 i think, of which first one seriously broke during trials, and again on maiden voyage, in the Panama Channel no less, blocking it. To add even more fun, whomever designed this stellar piece of engineering, didn't included a way to replace the engine so they had to dismantle quarter of the ship to fix it. Also the class was designed to house multiple revolutionary new weapon and defense systems of which most if not all is either not as revolutionary, already not cutting edge or simply not ready because of enormous corruption in the MIC and USN.
It's probably the most embarrassing ship failure since HMS Captain.
Yeah wasn't it supposed to have railguns? I remember seeing test firings something like five years ago
Yes, it seems that there is huge difference between very big prototype on a secure testing field and battle-ready version sized like 155mm gun. Also the gun itself is top three scandal of that ship.
Basically the main task of that ship was to... save money (don't laugh!) in assymetric warfare against opponents being colonized, to be exact, to deliver long range precise artillery strikes with the cannons, because cannon shell is cheaper, more difficult to defend from and smaller than guided missile. They wanted modern colonial gunboats.
After the railgun failed, they proposed rocket propelled shells for normal artillery. This worked more or less as advertised, but the cost of ammunition was actually huge, not very different than missiles - because when ordered they planned for dozens of ships to be build and ultimately they only ordered 3 and the cost/shell skyrocketed. So they ordered only small amount of those special shells and the ship is otherwise armed with normal shells for its guns (practially useless) and classical guided missiles (which are also getting obsolete, US is even planning to buy norwegian missiles for their new frigates).
What, like the Russian Krasnopol?
In general terms yeah.
In practice, i just looked it and it's worse than i originally thought, because the entire system can only use special ammo, it can't fire normal shells. And they don't have ammo for it.
It's such trash that even wiki mercilessly smashed it.