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Cost and design bugs could sink new destroyer program
The DDG 1000 was to be a class of two dozen destroyers with a radar-evading profile and a crew half the size of those on similar vessels. But purchases are on hold because of the cost – up to $5 billion each – and reliance on unproven technologies.
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