DDG 1000 (Image from Naval.com)New Destroyer Emerges in U.S. Plans -- Defense News
A "future surface combatant" (FSC) and the accelerated development of an anti-missile radar could be the U.S. Navy's answer to new missiles under development by China.
The new ship could become even more central to Navy plans. The price tag for the DDG 1000 destroyer has hit $6 billion a copy, Pentagon documents show. The Zumwalts may be in a Nunn-McCurdy breach, which would require the Navy - already downplaying the ship - to recertify the program's value to the nation's defense.
The viability of the Zumwalt class was already in question because of its price tag, which the Navy has declared to be $3.3 billion per ship but which non-Navy analysts put at $5 billion to $7 billion.
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My Comment: Information Dissemination has more on the DDG 1000. His post is The Navy's New Battleship Budget Plan.
Update: The Next Navy Procurement Disaster -- New Wars
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