What did we do with it? Oh, right. Nothing.
Why that is I wonder?
Oh eyeah it was force cancelled by Congress as unneed.
Is that supposed to make the USN sound smarter?
Yes cause they were trying to do the right thing but the Peanut gallery scream and rage about till it got cancelled on them.
Ut not the Navy fault but Congress.
For a whole FOUR missiles. Again, is that supposed to make the USN sound smarter?
Which is four more then the Korea or China has. Those max out at 28 inches. The Zumwalts are geting ones that are 34 plus inches. Cause hypersonics need bigger tubes then anything at sea besides the ICBMs to get NEAR the performance of the 1k Tomahawk.
The only thing a Hypersonic does better then a Tomahawk is get to the target faster. That it.
Congress doesn't dictate cell size or weapons. They damn sure aren't going to fund anything with no proposals
They dont even want to fund the proposals WE GOT if their is even a slight issue with them during development.
How many times were the Ford, F35, Virginia and Zumwalts were threaten or got cancel cause the media blow up a minor issue out of proportion?
Oh eyeah, lots. The Entire Military had to fight to get what it has.
And here we are, gashing and wailing bout not having the capabilities we want but dont have..
When we
HAD THEM but we wail about how useless they were. So they were cancelled and removed. Cause Congresz believe us when we said they were useless and waste of funding.
And now everything has a surprise Pikachu face since it turns out that we really DID need them.
That is entirely on Congress for getting frightened over a little bad press and listening to the glorified peanut gallery instead of the expects in the services.
The Navy can do nothing bout that but lobby and that only goes so far. Doesn't matter how many proposals the Navy have if congress only pays for two of them. Or straight up dont believe that they are needed.