Another $20 Billion Down The MIC Shithole

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
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Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: The United States Navy is getting 20 more $500+ million dollar Littoral Combat Ships.

The original Deepwater estimate for these things was $200 million dollars a pop. LCS #1 came in a $584 million dollars; LCS #2 came in at $704 million dollars. So what do we do? Build 20 more of them. :(






The Navy had intended to choose this year between competing LCS designs from Lockheed Martin and Austal USA, but on Nov. 3 the service revealed its desire to buy 10 more ships of each design - a move that needs Congressional approval. Pictured here is Lockheed's littoral combat ship Freedom.


Navy allowed dual LCS buy
By Kate Brannen - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 21, 2010 20:33:33 EST

With the House’s passage of a federal funding bill Dec. 21, the U.S. Navy received the necessary congressional permission to buy both versions of the Littoral Combat Ship.

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1. recommend

[w8liftinglady]

2. Recommend.The MIC is the real reason for perpetual battle

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Military-industrial_complex

[Gravel Democrat]

3. bounce

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4. ttt

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5. The MIC will not rest until they can make those ships fly

like eagles

[gratuitous]

6. And why not buy . . . both?

Now there's some fiscal responsibility for ya! Just in case Al Qaeda ever decides to build a navy, we've got two (count 'em!) versions of the LCS. Please wait here while the hawks in Congress ponder whether that's enough . . .

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7. War is and always will be big business. Watch the deficit climb,.