On The Good News Front For Bath Iron Works, They Are Building the First $5+ Billion Dollar Destroyer

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unhappycamper summary of this article: Call me silly, but $5 billion dollars is a tad much for a fricking destroyer.




Senator: Navy LCS plan hurts Bath shipyard bid
By David Sharp - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Nov 9, 2010 16:04:23 EST

It’s currently wrapping up a production run of Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and is building the first of three Zumwalt-class destroyers. Littoral combat ships are much smaller than those ships.