Re: DD(X) Costs

Paul F Austin wrote:
What drives the cost of the DD(X)?
Based on the article in the current USNI Proceedings, the recurring cost
(not the first or second article) will likely run in the multiple billions.
For a largish destroyer. One without an area air defense mission or system.

DD(X) has all the things the surface navy wants in a warship: stealthy hull,
electric drive, conformal, integrated aperature antennas, modern guns, lots
of automation for reduced manning. I can understand an stratospheric price
for the first couple of ships, given all the new systems but if the
recurring price is anything like what's reported, then the architects should
be fired. Fired for picking impossibly expensive systems for inclusion in
the design.

I bet most of the cost comes from paying for half of the technical developments needed for the future surface navy on the back of a tiny number of ships.

It's like the F-22 all over again.

-HJC
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