goodbye yards in Menominee/Marinette

Like the fundamental issue with trying to go for a manned OHP equivalent is that the threat environment is so much worse now that you're still putting a lot ship, a lot of systems, and a lot of people in a not particularly well defend basket -- and that last category is a real kicker

I'm not trying to dogpile but it really grinds me gears that instead of addressing his argument you seek refuge in ad hominems and claim he is attacking you. Not how you promote discussion.

I take solace in the fact this dude is retired.

note how he's fully left the topic of his op-ed behind ... no doubt suddenly extremely eager to put it behind him

Funny how pivots to talking about the politics of it as soon as he gets annihilated on the facts.

It has been great entertainment to watch the chain of emails about this.

Plus one, a fantastic book

49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin

I don't think anyone official has said 16 VLS is the goal. That's what we were all hoping they'd do. As for the Connie the delay is a little more complicated than that

tldr: We're getting less than a quarter of the capabilities of the Constellation class for a ship that cost $735 million dollars in 2013.

I forgot to mention ASW. Unknown if the current design has the modifications necessary but I'm going to say it doesn't based on this quote from the USNI article about FF(X) plus this quote from a DTIC article on the base NSC design