Remember one administration ago when climate change was our greatest enemy. Now we find out the green navy’s biggest enemy is reality.
The navy wasted only $52M. Cheap for government work.
Of course reality didn’t stop the F-35 program.
The Navy is canceling a program to install fuel-efficient hybrid electric drives in 34 destroyers, leaving only one destroyer with the technology, the Navy confirmed in a statement.
Citing “department priorities,” the service requested $6.3 million for 2018 to finish the installation on the destroyer Truxtun, but has zeroed out funding in 2019 and in the out years. The service has spent about $52 million on the program to date. The whole program was expected to cost $356.25 million, according to the Navy’s FY2017 budget submission…

