Losers

The LCS will be cut some and pushed to one vendor.

The ship is garbage. And overall, a sad story.

The US Navy's fight to buy 52 variants of its littoral combat ship (LCS) from two shipbuilders may have taken a fatal blow this week after the secretary of defense directed the service to cap its buy at 40 ships and pick only one supplier. The directive also orders the Navy to buy only one ship annually over the next four years, down from three per year.

But hey, good news. The "savings" will go to...

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Carter, in the Dec. 14 memo, directs the Navy to reallocate savings from the LCS/FF cuts to buy more F/A-18 and F-35 aircraft, more SM-6 surface-to-air missiles, and support Virginia Payload Module (VPM) development for future Virginia-class submarines. The VPM is an extra hull section that would be built into Block V submarines and mount four large vertical payload tubes.

The Navy can't buy a break.

BTW, I forgot that the 3rd DDG is called the Lyndon B. Johnson.

Big Navy really, really can't buy a break. Naming a gross waste of money after Mr. "The Great Society" (where his quote on that is horrible). Gulf of Tonkin and well...

"We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves."

Someday, we might get a Navy worth the money we invest in it.

Someday...

H/T - @KhamhouDet