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The US Air Force Built Only 21 B-2 Spirits and They Cost About $2,000,000,000 Each. It Wants at Least 100 B-21 Raiders at Roughly $750,000,000 Apiece.
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (498+ words) The B-2 cost $2,000,000,000 a copy because only 21 were built. The B-21 was designed from the start to avoid that, with cost written in as a performance requirement....
Northrop Spent More Than $750,000,000 of Its Own Money on the F-20 Tigershark Without a Dollar of Pentagon Funding. It Sold 0 Aircraft and Wrote Off About $1,200,000,000.
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (595+ words) Northrop built the F-20 Tigershark entirely with its own money. It out-turned the F-16, needed half the maintenance, cost less — and not one air force on earth bought it....
The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (1238+ words) Lockheed refused to bid. Northrop refused to bid, and told the Navy its cost estimate was at least $2,000,000,000 short. The contract fixed a price of $4,840,000,000 on stealth coatings, composites and a radar that did not yet exist. The team that…...
China Is Launching A New Aircraft Carrier Every 20 Months. The US Navy Cannot Deliver One On Time — And The Gap Is The Shipyards.
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (1392+ words) Why can’t the U.S. Navy build aircraft carriers and submarines fast enough to keep pace with China? The answer is neither money nor will. It is that the United States has only two shipyards capable of building nuclear-powered warships, both…...
'A Mistake We Can’t Ever Fix’: The US Navy’s Seawolf-Class Submarine Shortage Makes Russia and China Smile as There Is No Fix
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (537+ words) Virginia-class production has run at roughly 1.1 to 1.2 boats a year since 2022 against a goal of two, while about 24 Los Angeles-class submarines remain in commission and continue to age out. If only the Navy had more Seawolf-class subs....
US Navy Nuclear Attack Submarines Spent 41 Years Idle at the Pier in a Decade. The Navy Paid $230,000 a Day for It.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (662+ words) A GAO report finds US attack submarines spent 41 ship-years idle in a decade at $230,000 a day — the full story....
In 2010 the Royal Navy Tried to Cancel an Aircraft Carrier and Found It Was Cheaper to Build It Than to Scrap It
1+ week, 3+ day ago (383+ words) Two Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines, four diesel generator sets, over 100 megawatts of electrical generation and a 13,000-square-metre flight deck — on a Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier Britain tried to cancel....
The 65,000-Ton HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales Are the Largest Aircraft Carriers the Royal Navy Ever Built. Neither Has a Catapult, Which Limits Both Ships to 1 Aircraft: The F-35B
1+ week, 3+ day ago (372+ words) HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales have no catapults and no arresting wires. That rules out the F/A-18, the EA-18G Growler, the E-2D Hawkeye and the F-35C, leaving only the F-35B....
The US Navy Sold 5 Aircraft Carriers for 1 Cent Each to Be Broken Apart Into Pieces in Texas and It Makes Perfect Sense
1+ week, 5+ day ago (153+ words) Why the US Navy sold five aircraft carriers for a penny each and paid millions on two more — the contract mechanics, the failed alternatives, and the nuclear bills ahead....
Midlife Crisis: US Navy Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Need a Massive Overhaul in 25 Years That Keep Them Out of Action for Years
1+ week, 5+ day ago (352+ words) Halfway through a 50-year life, every Nimitz-class carrier is cut open, refueled and rebuilt at Newport News. For more than four years the ship offers no operational presence at all....