Coast Guard Struggling to Update Aging Fleet
 

Nearly a decade into a 25-year, $24.2 billion overhaul intended to add or upgrade more than 250 vessels to its aging fleet, the Coast Guard has two new ships to show after spending $7 billion-plus.Now it's facing an uphill battle persuading a budget-conscious Congress to keep pouring money into a project plagued by management problems and cost overruns.


By now the Coast Guard was supposed to have at least eight new ships - four 418-foot national security cutters and four 154-foot cutters - either in the water or about to be delivered. Instead it has only two of the largest ships already in use, with two ships more on the way.

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They, the CoastGuard wil,l get short-sheeted by Congress. :down: But any Big Campaign contributor holding their hat out for a bailout, the money will pour out like water out of a faucet.

Compare the two and, who has proven themselves. :-?

Any Coasties around here?

7 billion for TWO patrol cutters?
 

No wonder they don't get priority. The US can get a carrier and most of its air wing for that kind of money... :damn:

And I thought the Royal Navy got shafted regarding the new carriers.