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Friday, March 15, 2013

When It Comes to the Navy’s Destroyers, It’s a Numbers Game

USS William P. Lawrence |Providing the coverage the Navy believes it needs to patrol the world’s oceans is being made more complicated by a chronic shortage of destroyers, analysts have said.

And budget uncertainties are only complicating the problem, a February Congressional Research Service report penned by Ronald O’Rourke noted.

The Arleigh Burke-class DDG-51s in their current and future iterations, along with three Zumwalt-class DDG-1000s — still under construction — are all in the Navy’s fiscal year 2013 30-year shipbuilding plan mix.

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