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Originally Posted by nikimcbee
Sadly they are not going to cut overall spending. They are just going to spend it someplace else  . Sure, the military is bloated, but nobody wants their sacred cow cut. |
I'd tend to debate that, given that the railgun and free electron laser have both been cancelled, as has the airborne laser (which granted was a test bed). The LCS is nothing more than a floating hull since they've cancelled all of the mission modules.
The problem is that contractors need to be held accountable for failures, which isn't happening. There is a lot of "you've sunk 5 million into this project that doesn't work already, so what's another 1 million?" Those extra millions tend to kill projects that are actually working and accomplishing things.