re: #463 thedopefishlives

To be fair, even the US Navy has its share of mishaps. Some of them even involve brand-new ships. Ship happens.

Oh no argument there, the LCS program has been an utter disaster for the US Navy and the Ford class isn’t much better. The Zumwalt’s still so new that there’s no telling if it will be a problem child, but I suspect there will be problems to iron out. What the US Navy does best is find a good design and then exploit the fuck out of it for decades. That’s why they’re preparing for a whole new flight of Arleigh Burke’s despite the design being decades old. Don’t fix what isn’t broken.