that launch airplanes. Workers completed construction of a stealth destroyer before its advanced gun system, already installed, was scrapped.
Matt Caris, a defense analyst with Avascent, said it’s important that the Navy gets it right by balancing the best technology that’s reliable, affordable and attainable. The Navy is in a difficult spot because the Biden administration is not interested in dramatically increasing the military budget, said Bryan Clark, a defense analyst at the Hudson Institute. Research and development alone would cost an extra $10 billion to $20 billion for the destroyer, submarine and jet, he said, representing a big chunk of the $220 billion Navy budget.
Gilday, who is the Navy's top officer, said the transition to the new destroyers will likely start in the “2032 time frame." For now, top Navy leadership want to keep current production lines of destroyers humming until designs are ready.