ΣΧΟΛΙΟ ΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΙΟΥ : Ενώ το αμερικάνικο ναυτικό ζητάει να παροπλιστούν αυτές οι σαβούρες , τα εδώ λαμόγια θέλουν να δώσουμε 6 δις για να τα αγοράσουμε.!! Ουαί κι αλίμονο εάν επιλέξετε την αμερικανική τράτα. Θυμάμαι μια δήλωση του Γεραπετρίτη: -''Η κόκκινη γραμμή της Ελλάδος είναι τα 6 ν.μ.'' Από την επιλογή της φρεγάτας θα δούμε αν είχε δίκιο!! Λίγη υπομονή ακόμη!
Surely throwing away a 4-year-old ship is the epitome of wasteful defense spending, especially after billions were sunk into making it operational. But the most recent twist in the interminable saga of the struggling littoral combat ship — the Defense Department wants to decommission four of them — illuminates a fundamental paradox: Sometimes the least wasteful course of action is to discard things, even ones dearly paid for, that over time will cost you much more than they're worth.
Money spent operating littoral combat ships could instead go to deploying more powerful vessels with vastly greater combat capabilities.
As absurd as junking virtually new littoral combat ships might seem, it would be more wasteful to force the Navy to spend additional billions operating and upgrading several ships that have been plagued with serious problems and have failed to meet numerous expectations just to grow fleet size to catch up with Chinese shipbuilding.
Yet it's quite possible that Congress won't grasp this logic. Or perhaps it simply won't want to; after all, Congress ordered the Navy in 2018 to purchase three more of the vessels than the Navy wanted.
The Biden administration is finally trying to scale back the troubled program in the 2022 defense budget request it released last week. The Pentagon wants to decommission four littoral combat ships, on top of two others it has already received permission to take out of service. These beleaguered vessels were meant to have 25-year service lives but are being retired only four to 13 years after their commissioning.
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