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The average costs of construction accordingly increased, to $4.24 billion, [1] [17] [18] [2] well exceeding the per-unit cost of a nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine ($2.688 billion), [19] [20] and with the program's large development costs now attributable to only three ships, rather than the 32 originally planned, the total program cost ...
USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) is a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy. She is the lead ship of the Zumwalt class and the first ship to be named after Admiral Elmo Zumwalt. [10] [11] Zumwalt has stealth capabilities, having a radar cross-section similar to a fishing boat despite her large size. [12]
USS Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) is the third and final Zumwalt-class destroyer built for the United States Navy.The contract to build her was awarded to Bath Iron Works located in Bath, Maine, on 15 September 2011.
The U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer program has experienced one problem after another, from a failure to maintain power while at sea to a gun that requires munitions so expensive that the ...
But the system featuring 155 mm guns hidden in stealthy turrets was canceled because each of the rocket-assisted projectiles cost between $800,000 and $1 million. Despite the stain on its reputation, the three Zumwalt-class destroyers remain the Navy’s most advanced surface warship in terms of new technologies.
The expensive Zumwalt class has struggled to find a suitable mission and weapons. ... Research and development for the destroyer cost about $22.4 billion, and General Dynamics spent another $40 ...
The USS Zumwalt, America's newest stealth destroyer packs some impressive firepower but there's just one problem: the US Navy can't afford the ammunition for the vessel's 155-millimeter Advanced ...
Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle [5] vehicle programs was cancelled in 2011 due to cost overruns. The US Navy's Zumwalt-class destroyer's production cost increased from a projected $3.15 billion to $5.82 billion per ship, triggering a Nunn–McCurdy Amendment breach and cancellation of further production in 2016. [6]