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The USS Harry S. Truman will soon lead a Navy strike group into the volatile Red Sea, where U.S. sailors have fought almost daily for months to down drones and missiles launched by Houthi rebels from Yemen.
The sea service spent billions of dollars to increase its weapons inventory. Now it has run into a major obstacle.
A lot could ride on the DDG(X), especially after the fiascos that included the U.S. Navy's Zumwalt-class and Littoral Combat Ship program. Both failed to deliver on their highly-touted promises.
“We’re 10 years down the road and we still don’t have something we can field?”
The goal is to keep ships at sea and those in queue up to date, the service’s surface warfare director said.