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Originally Posted by TopHatter
Disturbing figures to say the least.
One bright point is the large numbers of Arleigh Burke-class DDGs
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Yes. Thanks for making part of my point. Which I dont think I was quite clear on. maybe on purpose. LOL
The other part of the point is that the USN for the next 10 years or so depends on shoring up #s by keeping older and less capable ships as part of the Official Battle Force structure. At first its logistic ships and soon it will be the OHP class frigates.
Then it will be the incusion of the new MPF(Seabasing) ships combined with a massive investment in LCS. Both programs may or may not bear that much fruit and the true capabilities of both classes remains to be seen.
Another note is that the USN has touted (even recently) the High Speed and HS connector ships but only have a handful projected in their new force structure plan. Although they seem to really be pushing up the #s on LCS and the program in general.