The unanswered questions, the Navy's sudden switch away from support for the ship and new hints that structural problems might make construction even more of a problem are adding up, some say, to mean that no ships might come out of the decade long effort.
The newest problem is that components of the ship's superstructure don't seem to be fitting together properly, which has left the Navy scurrying for new contractors. This comes on the heels of the Navy's determination that the DDG-1000 cannot feasibly use weapons necessary to defend itself from the newest missiles in the Chinese arsenal. Since the beginning of the summer, the Navy has cut its request of DDG-1000s from seven to two; a compromise with Congressional supporters of the ship then raised that number to three. If no ships are eventually built (and the Navy now, frankly, seems to hate the ship) then this will go down as one of the biggest wastes of money in the history of US military expenditure.
—Robert Farley
