Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Million Dollar Rounds? Fire that shit!

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/navy-cant-fire-awesome-gun-192909016.html
The US Navy can't fire its awesome new gun that can hit a target more than 70 miles away because the rounds are costing the service nearly a million bucks a piece. 
Just a couple weeks after the Navy commissioned its most advanced warship, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), the service says it won't be buying any more of the guided precision munitions the ship's Advanced Gun Systems uses, called the Long Range Land-Attack Projectile (LRLAP).
The 155mm round is "the most accurate and longest-range guided projectile" in Navy history, according to Lockheed Martin. It's also one of the most expensive, with the price of each round costing roughly $800,000 to $1 million, for a total cost of around $2 billion if the service purchased its planned buy of 2,000 rounds, Sam LaGrone of USNI reported.
The Navy wasn't expecting the exorbitant cost when it first began producing the advanced Zumwalt-class destroyers.
It originally planned to build 32 of the stealth ships, but cost overruns led the service to eventually reduce the number down to just three. That reduction in the number of ships also led the cost of its ammunition to rise, Defense News reported

Look I understand the United States is like a bajillion dollars of debt, and maybe we should be trying to be more fiscally responsible.  And when it comes to a lot of the garbage this country spends money own I tend to agree. But for a sweet massive gun that can fucking nail a terrorist from 70 miles away? Fuck that! Fire Away!.

Think this nation is divided? Two presidential candidates that no one seems to truly like.  Well I know a way to rally America.  Fire these puppies off like there is no tomorrow.  Be like the drunk college kid at the bar who keeps buying rounds of shots even though he doesn't have the money.  Don't think, just shoot.  And of  course video tape every second of it.  Nothing can bring people together like seeing a bunch of ISIS scum getting blown to pieces by the Navy's fucking awesome new toy.

P.S. One way to fund the ammo? Auction off getting to fire the shots.  Trying to tell me if you had millions of dollars you wouldn't bid on the chance to pull the trigger?

Double P.S. Seriously how stupid is this country? If the rounds cost a million bucks I can only imagine how expensive it was to build.  Yeah that makes sense, spend millions of dollars developing the most badass weapon out there and than just leave it the garage and don't take it out for a spin.  Lets use our brains one time for me.




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