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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Navy can't fire its awesome new gun.
The rounds cost nearly $1 million each.
"The 155mm round is "the most accurate and longest-range guided projectile" in Navy history, according to Lockheed Martin. It's also one of the most expensive, with the price of each round costing roughly $800,000 to $1 million, for a total cost of around $2 billion if the service purchased its planned buy of 2,000 rounds, Sam LaGrone of USNI reported."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-navy-cant-fire-its-awesome-new-gun-because-the-rounds-cost-nearly-dollar1-million-each/ar-AAk0XQS?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
We must stop this madness.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)We can't take care of our citizens when they get sick. We can't have good schools with well-paid, motivated professional teachers. We can't maintain our road systems. We can't staff the DMV so that renewing your license isn't an all-day ordeal. And about a kajllion other things, because we need to buy million-dollar projectiles to blast people to Kingdom Come.
trof
(54,270 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Some "Progressives" complaining.
But this shit goes on all the time.
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sofa king
(10,857 posts)It's a six-inch shell with a built-in rocket, a pea-shooter in naval terms. It's only two inches bigger than an Abrams tank's round.
lpbk2713
(43,178 posts)Biggest boondoggle ever. The Navy had to modify their flight decks so the F-35 wouldn't burn them up.
Link: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/navy-builds-ship-for-f-35-ship-needs-months-of-upgrade-1697523492
Rex
(65,616 posts)invented a ship they didn't need with shells that will cost trillions if we ever go to war. War is profitable, people seem to forget.
jmowreader
(51,292 posts)Or, for that matter, just firing good old-fashioned $200 howitzer shells with under-$10,000 GPS-guided fuzes.
Delmette
(522 posts)to pay for their new planes and schools had all the funding they needed.