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Surface Combatants: Navy Faces Challenges Sustaining Its Current Program

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 21, 1997
Report No. NSIAD-97-57
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Summary:

The Navy now spends about $3 billion each year to modernize its surface combatant force. The high costs of these ships, especially the $870 million price tag for each Arleigh Burke destroyer, raises questions about the Navy's ability to sustain this force level. The Navy's plan to build and maintain a fleet of 125 cruisers, destroyers, and frigates through the year 2013 hinges on optimistic assumptions about future defense budgets and ship construction schedules. Moreover, the Navy has yet to explain how this force level relates to the national defense strategy of fighting two nearly simultaneous regional conflicts.

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