Here Are Five Massive Pentagon Projects That Have Problems

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Business Insider: Here are 5 of the worst weapons projects the US military has in the works

* The US military, the Navy in particular, has a number of expensive and highly problematic programs in the works, and the issues largely stem from a rush to develop platforms before the required technologies are ready, a naval analyst said.


* This issue is not unique to the Navy though. The Department of Defense and the various service branches are all in the process of rethinking innovation in the wake of past failures.

The US military, together with its industry partners, makes some of the finest weapons in the world, but the programs that produce them rarely run as smoothly as intended.

Some of the most problematic of the military's recent projects belong to the US Navy.

The big problem for the Navy is that the service, just as other branches of the military have in the past, has rushed to develop platforms before the required technologies were ready, Bryan Clark, a naval affairs expert, told Business Insider, pointing to the new Zumwalt-class destroyers and the Ford-class supercarriers.

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