Subject: Re: Largest Navy ship order since 1945
Finally someone in DC is paying attention to what the surface Navy actually needs.

I'll agree to a point. Yes, useful stuff. Though a new Arleigh Burke is not optimal. They need to get their fingers out of their butts, and finish the DDG(x). China and DPRK are fielding next-gen destroyers as we speak, and our government can't seem to get anything through the design phase. Not entirely the Felon's fault...it's been floundering for at last 10 years, as I recall.

The subs we certainly are getting right. We seem to do that well.

The frigate is a sad story of multiple incompetences resulting in the scrapping of the new ship, and adapting an existing hull. It might be better to buy the South Korean FFX hulls. By all reports, they're pretty good.