Nah, Kegseth just needed more booze money.

I'm pretty sure that's just the inevitable consequence of decades of under-regulated capitalism and cronyism letting the arms dealers set their own prices and conditions.

Personally, I consider the most bloated military in the history of the world not being able to expand or even replace its flotilla a huge win though, regardless of the reasons 🤷

This is such an incredibly dumb decision. This was going to be the direction the navy went in - more vessels that are capable in aggregate, but no single one as too big of a target. Datalink handoff. Sensor fusion.

But they’re probably gonna make a new class of battleship or something idiotically obsolete like that.

Let's see if the coast guard is happy with the new patrol ship once one of those are finished. If the coast guard fails too, pretty entertaining incompetence

Export more manufacturing industries

If they built the amphibious assault ships to look like this, then they could fill them with Cybertrucks and anytime the US invaded a country it would be horrific and comical at the same time.

I do wonder what the advent of drone warfare, including the marine drones used in the black sea against Russia, and the Taiwanese investment in drones for defense against China, has done to impact the outlook and priorities of the US Navy. It may very well be that it has changed the assessment of whether to purchase large expensive ships.

Good. Hope they stop building death ships all together and are forced to have bake sales for more.

Maybe they could use the boat materials to build some sort of arch. A triumphant arch.

sounds like things remain the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars

Sounds like may every engineering project I've worked on.