Another incipient program doomed to failure, cost ballooning, massive incompetence and buyer’s remorse. The program should be stopped immediately and every flag officer currently serving fired, the Department of the Navy SES structure gutted and cashiered and blow the lid off all the mismanagement and classified hiding schemes of the Navy Operational Test and Evaluation bureaucracy that has been a keen contributor to the absolute failure of all ships built since 1991 with the last successful hull commissioned in the Aegis. The time for creative destruction and absolute disruption of business as usual has to happen.
Stop the madness.
Fire them all.
In a lot of areas, we need a “Program Stand Down.” We cannot afford to be stupid, again, with DDG(X), nor with F/A-XX.
Whatever is making these programs move at the speed of smell needs to be gutted and gibbeted. For 75 years, the Brightest People in the Room™ have been telling us naval guns were obsolete, but in every real world encounter with our messy and unpredictable world, we have needed them.
We no longer live in the post-Cold War land of the Lotus Eaters. Urgency and action. Embrace the good-enough, and publicly damn the pursuit of the perfect and transformational, as that narcissistic folly is what got us in to this mess.
Oh, and put a damn 5” Mark 45 on the front and at least one 76mm like the Italian warship Caio Duilio has two forward, aft.
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/so-were-going-to-screw-up-ddgx-too
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