Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesFrom Foreign Policy Blog:
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has taken drastic measures recently to cut the Pentagon's bloated weapons projects. But other countries are struggling with their own defense albatrosses, too.
Country: Britain
Budget: $10.6 billion for six ships
Status: Delayed
The plan: Advertised as the "world's most advanced warship" by defense contractor BAE Systems, the T45 is the Royal Navy's next-generation air defense platform. The destroyers will be armed with the newly developed Primary Anti-Air Missile System, whose surface-to-air Aster missiles are said to be capable of destroying a fist-sized target traveling at Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound, from 19 miles away.
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My Comment: I am very skeptical of this list, and a bit disappointed with the analysis .... still ..... there are many procurement projects in the works that should be put on the list and probably will with time.
The way the F-35 project is developing .... there is a very good chance that this may become the biggest boondoggle of them all .... and it is not even commented on by the Foreign Policy writer.