"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......"
In other words the yanks are building a single destroyer for the cost of one UK CVF or three T45's. They are quite simply utterly barking mad
It was noticable that the Democrat concerned happened to have Ingalls in his constituency...a lethal combination of Mil Industrial complex and "pork barrels"? we used to have an expression for this sort of exponential cost- the military road to absurdity. Just who do they think they are going to fight? The mind boggles!