Originally Posted by
ORAC
The ship builders certainly know how to go through money though. The DDG-1000s cost
$3.2 billion each. And that is just construction cost, not whole life......
Doesn't that include a hefty chunk of the development costs, and aren't lead ships always more expensive? Wouldn't surprise me if late-production DDG1000 could be got for $1.5-2bn (bargain!). Compare late-build DDG51 approx. $1bn each. DDG1000 is a very innovotive design and so it's unsurprising it costs a lot.