Jeb Hoge wrote:
Henry J Cobb wrote in message ...
John Cook wrote:
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/new...s/03224wna.xml
...and they have stripped other projects to keep F/A-22 alive.

No wonder they need more money than the Navy and Marines combined
(killing off American shipbuilding until at least 2009), anybody know
what inside the Force itself has been gutted to feed this beast?

Huh? What shipbuilding are they killing off? Let's see some
attribution; DDG-51-class and LPD 17-class production alone
invalidates your claim, unless those really aren't ships under
construction that I saw in Bath.

The last DDGs get started next year.

And then it's 1 LPD, 1 Sub and 1 or 2 other warships until 2009.

(If each sub lasts 30 years and you only buy one a year, how many will
you wind up with?)

Starting in 2009 we get a "Rush order sought for untried vessel".

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m..._1n22ship.html

So the big LCS buy might get put off for a few years after that point.

-HJC