The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
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Littoral combat #ships were supposed to launch the #Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their #weapons never worked.
Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.
#Military #DefenseSpending #Pentagon #LCS #News
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
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