Navy Says New Carrier is Cheaper
I love the way the navy juggles figures and quotes facts, anything to keep over-priced, obsolecent equipment in the budget. Anyone with a little common sense can see that $11 billion is not cheap, all the while the Army is struggling for manpower, and the fleet has fallen way below 300 ships.
Amid Congressional pressure to curb rocketing US naval shipbuilding costs, a senior navy acquisition official said the next-generation aircraft carrier will be less expensive to build than continuing production of its predecessor.
Briefing reporters on 2 June, the navy's programme executive officer for aircraft carriers, Rear Admiral Dennis Dwyer, rejected the notion that it would be cheaper to continue building CVN-77 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers rather than jumping to the next-generation CVN-21. "Construction cost in the first ship will be less than the [CVN]-77," he said.
For less than a billion the Navy could build Arsenal Ships which could carry the UAV's and other modern weapons which the Pentagon says the carriers can do.
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