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Would not be surprised with HII and Lockheed the Zumwalt conversion costs will be approx. $1billion per ship to fire the very limited number of 12 hypersonic CPS missiles per ship for a grand total 36 of the three ships in class.

To me the whole CPS business case is a nonsense, brute force and critically the ability to sustain and replenish your firepower of missiles and shells etc over an extended period historically is what wins wars in the end and to me the token number of delivery systems for the CPS missiles or ability to manufacture them in anything like sufficient numbers fails to meet these criteria.

PS Understand the Virginia Blk 5s will add a few more launchers for the CPS missiles but not even matching the number of the retiring four Ohio SSGNs with ability to launch a total of 616 Tomahawks.

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<blockquote data-quote="Cordy" data-source="post: 581883" data-attributes="member: 16554">Would not be surprised with HII and Lockheed the Zumwalt conversion costs will be approx. $1billion per ship to fire the very limited number of 12 hypersonic CPS missiles per ship for a grand total 36 of the three ships in class. To me the whole CPS business case is a nonsense, brute force and critically the ability to sustain and replenish your firepower of missiles and shells etc over an extended period historically is what wins wars in the end and to me the token number of delivery systems for the CPS missiles or ability to manufacture them in anything like sufficient numbers fails to meet these criteria.PS Understand the Virginia Blk 5s will add a few more launchers for the CPS missiles but not even matching the number of the retiring four Ohio SSGNs with ability to launch a total of 616 Tomahawks.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://insidedefense.com/insider/lockheed-awarded-11-billion-contract-sea-based-hypersonic-strike[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cordy, post: 581883, member: 16554"] Would not be surprised with HII and Lockheed the Zumwalt conversion costs will be approx. $1billion per ship to fire the very limited number of 12 hypersonic CPS missiles per ship for a grand total 36 of the three ships in class. To me the whole CPS business case is a nonsense, brute force and critically the ability to sustain and replenish your firepower of missiles and shells etc over an extended period historically is what wins wars in the end and to me the token number of delivery systems for the CPS missiles or ability to manufacture them in anything like sufficient numbers fails to meet these criteria. PS Understand the Virginia Blk 5s will add a few more launchers for the CPS missiles but not even matching the number of the retiring four Ohio SSGNs with ability to launch a total of 616 Tomahawks. [URL unfurl="true"]https://insidedefense.com/insider/lockheed-awarded-11-billion-contract-sea-based-hypersonic-strike[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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