The Navy can't fire its awesome new gun.

[trof]

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]

1. This is why we can't have nice things

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]

3. Yep. It's insane.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. What's really funny is, you cant give ten cents to NASA to exlore the Universe without

Some "Progressives" complaining.

But this shit goes on all the time.

[sofa king]

19. It's a light cruiser round!

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]

20. The F-35 was another Lockheed product.

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]

21. Finally, we reach a point where the enormous cost of making money for the wealthy

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]

23. And the reason we're not firing Excalibur rounds from this gun...is?

Or, for that matter, just firing good old-fashioned $200 howitzer shells with under-$10,000 GPS-guided fuzes.

[Delmette]

24. Wouldn't it be nice if the Air Force had a bake sale.....

to pay for their new planes and schools had all the funding they needed.