{"id":195984,"date":"2008-06-01T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/01\/delusional-navy-budgets\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T11:36:00","slug":"delusional-navy-budgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/01\/delusional-navy-budgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Delusional Navy Budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The navy is looking for $25 billion per year, about double current spending, on its 30 year plan for a 313 ship navy. <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that everyone <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3548400&amp;c=AME&amp;s=SEA\">knows that this is not unsustainable<\/a>, and their procurement programs are a mess, with the DDG-1000 costing over $5 billion a ship (the Navy claiming &#8220;only&#8221; $3.3 billion), the Littoral Combat Ship program being a disaster, with costs going from $220 Million\/ship to over $500 million\/ship, increasing maintenance costs as the Ticonderogas and the Burkes get older, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The article goes into more detail, but it appears increasingly clear that the Navy does not have a clear vision of what it needs to be or to do over the nest 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The navy is looking for $25 billion per year, about double current spending, on its 30 year plan for a 313 ship navy. The problem is that everyone knows that this is not unsustainable, and their procurement programs are a mess, with the DDG-1000 costing over $5 billion a ship (the Navy claiming &#8220;only&#8221; $3.3 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}