My point is that the Rats wouldn’t allow us to get an advantage because that wouldn’t be fair to our enemies.
Unfortunately, everything the US tries to build ends up costing far too much. The Zumwalt Destroyer class will have a ship in the water in 2013, I think. It’s a very advanced 14,000 ton stealthy destroyer. Closest thing to a battleship that any nation has built in decades. It’s darn cool. We were originally going to build 32 of them — imagine! Thirty-two stealthy ships capable of doing serious damage in a land attack scenario! The range on these ships is very high so anything near the coast becomes a viable target. But the cost was too high and we are going to end up with only 3 of these.