The U.S. Navy Has A Bad Dose Of AFPD

Image from Littoral Combat Ship

From Worldwide War Pigs:

The LCS: Here we are being asked to pay over $500 mil each for a corvette with a destroyer price that is if anything a floating monument of what is wrong with the U.S. Defense procurement system. Another problem is that the U.S. Navy needs an affordable frigate. LCS won't be the solution for that either.

The LCS will never be an effective "littoral" combat ship and the Navy knows it. The U.S. Navy needs ships in numbers to do all kinds of worldwide efforts that include showing the flag, police actions and of course sea control of whatever the national command authority deems necessary. Yet we will never get there if we have to pay for dreadnoughts that aren't needed and projects like the LCS that make the U.S. Navy look like it is catching a bad dose of USAF procurement disease which I will label "AFPD". The symptoms are where gold plated and faulty defense projects are passed off to the public as solutions and are instead nothing but gold plated lies.

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My Comment: Congress and the U.S. taxpayers money at work.