This is the first US Navy decision I can get behind in years.
The US Navy just cancelled its Constellation class frigate program because it is absolutely incapable of building hulls and ships that work. They have not launched a successful surface ship since 1991 with the Arleigh Burke class.
Total appropriated: $7.6 billion for the initial six ships and the amount spent so far with delivery of two incomplete ships: around $2 billion to $2.5 billion.
Canceling the Constellation-class is a major red flag over the US Navy’s eroding naval shipbuilding foundations. The challenge now is reviving the US shipbuilding industry with our allies to deliver warships at the speed today’s great-power competition demands.
Now they need to fire all the flag officers and senior project personnel and do a thorough corruption investigation into this disaster. The US Navy of course levied critical design changes on this ship over the years that severely compromised the original design. They also started building with an incomplete design.
Start firing people and make the Navy act like a first world navy instead of tinpot corrupt third world Marx Brother flotilla.
