LCS and Zumwalt both had their maintenance classified. Read the bloody thing is not saving money as promised. Ford is in maintenance and if her maintenance expense becomes classified it is basically in trouble.. This is what happens when industry designs your warships and fills many empty heads with proposed cost savings via revolution instead of evolution. It is also in industry ‘s best interest to lobby Congress that only they can repair American warships and not the U.S. sailor or government shipyard. It’s in their interest to over design so when systems do break they present a nice big repair bill. When LCS did deploy it had civilian technicians on-board just repairing systems that were breaking left and right. Nice big bill to Uncle Sam and that is why they staying pier side until scrapped.

There was nothing wrong with the Constellation it just wasn’t USN. How many Allied Fremms do you see patrolling the Pacific? Designing it to USN standards is what sank it. Giving it to a yard with little experience and no trained work force was the other issue.

Nothing wrong with the Columbia. After Ford Class Congress declared ships systems be tested on land before install. They found numerous hiccups which had to be redesigned therefore the delay and increase in expense. What Congress should have said was test the systems and designs on land , make sure it works consistently, then you can sell it to the USN not before.

Until the return of the Ship Board and public Navy yards the stupidity will continue. Private Industry has The Navy by the short ones. They could care less about national interests, they care about their stock price. Revolution is in industry ‘s best interest not the Straits of Taiwan or Hormuz

The Burke Class was the last class of ship designed in-house.