RE: James Webb space telescope axed
July 12, 2011 at 7:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2011 at 7:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Doesn't matter a whole lot if Reagan is the first or last of her class, Basic design of US carriers haven't changed a great deal across 5 different classes since the 1950s, nor would it change a great deal for the next Gearld Ford class. If any first-of-class vessel were to cost a great deal more than the rest, that would be more attributable to opportunistic vendor gouging and dishonest DOD accounting than any massive R&D cost.