One of the most expensive ships ever built and it has no ammunition? How on earth did that happen? #shorts
REFERENCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Gun_System
https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2016/11/07/new-warships-big-guns-have-no-bullets/
https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/surface-navy-association/2018/01/11/navy-has-no-plan-to-introduce-new-ammo-for-ddg-1000/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navys-zumwalt-class-stealth-destroyer-has-one-big-problem-41807
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/12/zumwalt-class-navy-stealth-destroyer-program-failure/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer
https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/ddg-51.htm
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/may/make-zumwalt-fighting-command-ship
https://www.naval-technology.com/features/feature-the-worlds-biggest-destroyers-4142231/
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why in the fuck would you have a ship that the ammunition cost more than the goddamn ship? y'all make me want to say a whole lot of shit and I ain't going to say it
Im sure the guns have ammunition just not as much as they would like because of cost lol I doubt they gonna have a warship with no ammo unless they changed out the guns for old ones
Nasa would have gone crazy just for a portion of that $8 billion
Still better than any russian cr@p
Garbage! Melt them down into slag!
Can you attach a net to the badk
They should replace it’s guns with the railgun
Government efficiency on full display in all its glory
800 million for Ukraine doesn’t sound like so much anymore huh
Who approved the federal contract,s ? What company was considered to build the amunition ? Who designed the program ??
How does an artillery shell cost that much? Someone needs to make a cheaper one.
This is a testimony to the navy’s incestuous relationship with the military industrialized complex. I bet the food chain on this were all retired Admirals that received healthy bonuses.
They can still make the rounds for 35,000 they just know the government will pay them a million a around so they say it’ll cost that much now.
And that they cheaper for the garment to buy or start one of those kind of factories to produce their own ammunition that way they can control costs
Cancel boat
Thats The most Ugly ive seen
Another colossal failure on the part the U.S. Navy just like the littoral class ship with problems with propulsion issues, but I guess they have enough money for those woke classes. Maybe, these admirals need to pull their heads out of their asses and figure what the true cost of building a ship before they waste our taxes money and cost over runs and feasibly of a weapon system before they bring it on line.
Why do you sound sad in this ep
Wtf lol $1m a round and they still ordered them….
It's the bow that makes this ship good.
Admiral Zumwalt posthumously awarded three fishing boats to his admiral fishing buddy's..
What a genius waste of taxpayers dollars….could hv built more escort destroyers
"fishing boat. dont shot"
Pov you playing modern warships: "yea good ship"
I got to see its radar cross section in real life and it was like a small fishing boat BUT the only reason it showed up at all was because it had some reflectors up to prevent collisions
Looks like the ships from cars rwo
Leave it to the Navy to screw up acquisitions. "We estimate ammo will be $35,000 per round." Actual cost: $1,000,000 a round. That's off by a factor of 28! Not 1.3. Not 1.7. 28 TIMES the estimate. And I bet you not one single man was demoted, let alone thrown out of the service. In fact, I'll bet every single person involved and responsible was promoted on schedule.