re: #174 Dark_Falcon

It is liable to end up being fairly cheap per unit now that the bugs are largely worked out, but the question is “Is it survivable enough?”, and the answer may well be “No”.

I think the Navy’s already admitted that it’s not meant to survive a real slugging match. That’s been part of the reason for cost overruns, the Navy decided half-way through the process of building the prototypes that “Hey, we might want to build them a little tougher,” only to find out that “tougher” costs more than they were budgeted.