With war on the horizon?-----The Navy’s continuing cruiser debacle

The Navy’s continuing cruiser debacle

• A multi-billion dollar effort to modernize the warships has not gone as planned - Geoff Ziezulewicz

"Back in 2015, the guided-missile cruiser Gettysburg began a lengthy modernization process that was supposed to enable the warship’s service life to be extended into the 2030s.
The congressionally mandated effort would go on to include six other Ticonderoga-class cruisers in the following years, a move that sought to maintain the Navy’s surface fires and air defense capabilities even after the warships’ standard 35-year service life came to an end...
Today, more than eight years after the modernization effort began, things have not gone as planned...