$5B Target

Hard to take the U.S. DOD very seriously on providing bang for the buck with this kind of waste.

But at more than $3 billion a pop, critics say the new DDG-1000 destroyer sucks away funds that could be better used to bolster a thinly stretched conventional fleet.

That, and an ever more obsolete-to-the-threat carrier air wing; well, one distinct possibility is this.