We spent $22.5 billion for 3 destroyers (DDG-1000) that have no ammo for their guns and cannot target aircraft/missiles without the help of the very destroyers/cruisers that they were supposed to replace.
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We spent $28 billion in R&D and another half billion each for 28 LCS ships - Ships that cannot go into the littorals without getting sunk by a couple of tribesmen with an Italian field gun from 1898, cannot do combat because their onboard weapons are too short ranged and they have no armor, and aren't even really ships. They're glorified Coastguard cutters that cannot go to sea for more than 30 days without breaking down.
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