it was the dream of admiral vern clark, he saw it as a solution as to the wars we are now fighting where there was a lot of activity in the literals. to t to the contract left before the mission was completed. early in the development of the ship, the navy changed the rules. the ship was bid with commercial design. criteria. the navy then said that it needed to meet navel surface vessel rules, which obviously would result in increased costs. the $220 million figure was really never the cost of the first ship, it would be the cost of ships during production. there's a lot of information out there about this ship. considering how hastily the ship was put into production, the ship has gone along with other classes of ships quite well. the second ship from the marionette marines receives very high accolades from the navy. there's some lessons to be learned from this development and that is we probably shouldn't do developments without an analysis of alternatives without completing the mission and we certainly shouldn't begin development before we knew the rules under which the ship was to be

it was the dream of admiral vern clark. he saw it as a solution to the problems we faced and the kinds of wars we are now fighting where there was a level of activity in the literals. the contract was left before there was analysis of alternatives, where the mission had been competed. during the early development of the ships the navy changed the rules. the ship was bid with commercial design criteria. the navy then said that it needed to meet naval surface vessel rules which obviously would result in increased costs. the $220 million figure was really never the cost of the first ship but the cost of ships during production. there has been a lot of misinformation out there about this ship. considering how hastily the contract was put in production the ship had really gone compared with other classes of ships quite well. the second ship from marinet marine they say has very high accolades from the navy. there are lessons to be learned from this development and that is probably we should not do development without analysis of

it's about 3,000 tons, and i believe cno vern clark was brilliant when he picked this side -- size. small combatants don't survive in this navy. it's got to be big enough to be able to have the margins to do something with. 3,000 tons. multirole platform emphasizing second stage systems. it was so different that we built these two ships on r&d money. these are r&d platforms. of course there are problems in it. we built them to identify the problems. we're now working the mission modules. we just had a very successful test on the warfare module. it will do better right now, that module will do better right now than the mcms that are in the fleet, and when we go to the spiral two and three, it will just get better. our antiservice monojewel, it's designed to fight small boats. people who don't think this is a warship are nuts. on day one, this ship will be fighting underneath the air defense umbrella of the broader fleet. it will engage the surface engagement zone out to the limits of its 57 millimeter cannon. no ship is getting past that thing. it is an unbelievably capable system. t