U.S. Navy destroyers found unfit for combat

Two highly sophisticated U.S. Navy warships with guns and missiles that can't be fired have been rated unfit for combat, a U.S. newspaper reported Monday.

The Navy Times, owned by the Gannett newspaper chain, said it obtained Board of Inspection and Survey reports showing the warships' Aegis radar systems didn't work property, flight decks were inoperable, and most of their missiles or big guns couldn't be fired.

The destroyer USS Stout, based in Norfolk, Va., and the cruiser USS Chosin, based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, also are rusty and leaking oil, the newspaper said.

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