{"id":14744,"date":"2016-11-08T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14744"},"modified":"2016-11-08T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T05:45:09","slug":"the-us-navys-latest-warship-fires-bullets-that-are-too-expensive-to-shoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-us-navys-latest-warship-fires-bullets-that-are-too-expensive-to-shoot\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Navy\u2019s Latest Warship Fires Bullets That Are Too Expensive To Shoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110816_0543_TheUSNavysL1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s armed forces are known for their expensive weapons programs. But even they have a limit writes Sean Gallagher:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since the Gulf War the Navy hasn&#8217;t had boats that can pound enemy land positions to make way for a rush of Marines.<\/li>\n<li>The USS Zumwalt was meant to rectify that. The first of what was meant to be 24 boats was deployed last month.<\/li>\n<li>However due to the expense of the program that was cut down to just three ships.<\/li>\n<li>And since the manufacturer can no longer take advantage of economies of scale, each projectile \u2013 from a gun that fires them at the rate of ten a minute &#8211; is now expected to cost $800,000.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast America has a nuclear missile that costs just $1 million to shoot. And other guided rounds cost as little as $70,000 a shot.<\/li>\n<li>The warships won&#8217;t go to waste. The guns can probably be retrofitted with different, cheaper projectiles, though they&#8217;ll be far less accurate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2016\/11\/long-range-projectiles-for-navys-newest-ship-too-expensive-to-shoot\/\">ArsTechnica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s armed forces are known for their expensive weapons programs. But even they have a limit writes Sean Gallagher: Since the Gulf War the Navy hasn&#8217;t had boats that can pound enemy land positions to make way for a rush of Marines. The USS Zumwalt was meant to rectify that. The first of what was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/110816_0543_TheUSNavysL1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14747,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14744\/revisions\/14747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}