Popular Mechanics: New Navy ship: ammo too expensive?

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Popular Mechanics: New Navy ship: ammo too expensive?

popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a23738/uss-zumwalt-ammo-too-expensive/

Doesn’t qualify as a news item from a regular news source, but is useful in terms of the discussion of the Federal budget.

 

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lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=893186

Daily Mail article

[What do you think a car would cost if they sold 100 of them? It would be millions each.]

Bill Clinton capped production of the B-2 bomber at only 21 instead of more than 100. So, when you include the development and design cost, it was very high per unit.

Same problem with the F-22 fighter that Obama capped.

Much lower production run than originally planned.

The C-17 cargo plane was also capped.

 

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Ammo is available.

Original article demonstrated that if you cancel the ammo factory, then there won’t be any ammo,