No long range missiles for USN

[LoBlo]

I remember reading a $1million plus dollar price tag as well somewhere, but I can't remeber where. It may be that GlobalSecurity is the one that's mistaken.

Its just curious that a successor have less speed AND less range than its predessor. I can't think of a another weapon system evolution that has ever showed this trend...:hmm: Especially when "air superiority" is the ultimate goal. One would think that the less closing maneuvers neccessary the more "air superiority" would result.

Then again, I've heard stories of the USN and its systems acquistion policies... they can be somewhat confounded by political implications (favortism toward certain builders, congressional bias, etc) as well as archiac thinking. No doubt some of those factors probably come into play with funding/developing billion dollar acquistion programs.