re: Budget Cuts Leave 101st Airborne Crippled

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The Zumwalt is a disaster though, it has no role and the price of stealth far outweighs benefits over the arleigh-burke class destroyers.

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You're talking about a ship that has been active for what, a year? Then comparing it to a ship that has had over a decade of service.

It was a radical new design for a destroyer. It's not a new role, it was supposed to replace Arleigh-Burke. As it stands, it serves as a test bed to see what kind of advantages it presents over the last generation. I mean, it's supposed to mount rail guns in the future and rail guns are no where near ready for combat applications. The ship design is far ahead of its time.