You Know Those $1.8 Billion Dollar DDG-51 Destroyers We're Building? [View All]

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unhappycamper summary of this article: Looks like the price of naval poker is going up.....

To recap:

Our next new aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, is going to cost around $40 billion dollars or so to build.

Our new Zumwalt-class destroyers are going to cost around $5 billion dollars each.

Our new LCS ships are going to cost around $500 million dollars each.

Our new Virgina-class submarines are going to cost somewhere between $5 ~ $7 billion dollars each.

This crap is getting expensive.






Report: Cost spike for Navy’s next DDGs
By Philip Ewing Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 4:51 pm

Sam LaGrone of Jane’s Navy International writes that according to the latest projections, the new Flight III versions of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer could cost between $3 and nearly $4 billion apiece, as much as double today’s Flight II version. That’s despite Navy officials’ onetime belief that restarting production of DDG 51s made sense because it would save money as compared with their previous planned run of next-generation Zumwalt-class destroyers.