Military Budget

Got to save $$ for Ukraine switch a roo.

“The US Navy wants to scrap nine of 16 Littoral Combat Ships built by Lockheed Martin Corp. well short of their projected service lives in order to save a projected $4.3 billion in upgrades and maintenance over coming years.

That decision may get a hard look at hearings by House and Senate panels on Wednesday and Thursday.

While the ships were built to spend 25 years at sea, many of those on the water are in the infancy of their naval careers. That includes the USS St. Louis, now in its third year of service life; the USS Billings and USS Indianapolis, in their fourth years; and the USS Sioux City and USS Wichita, in their fifth, according to a Navy information paper for Congress obtained by Bloomberg News.”

https://archive.ph/2022.05.11-141140/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-11/navy-risks-blowback-in-bid-to-scrap-5-billion-of-troubled-ships