FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Navy says it won’t buy any more $800,000 shells for new destroyer. “Defense News, quoting an unnamed Navy official, broke the story that the long-range shells for the newest U.S. Navy destroyer, named after Vietnam-era Chief of Naval Operations Elmo R. Zumwalt, are too expensive at $800,000 each, and no more will be purchased. That makes the stealthy ship, still more than a year from deployment as a weapons system, unable to do some of its primary missions: softening up beachheads for Marine landings and taking out inland terror-training camps.”

These things are the F-35 of the seas. Maybe we need a different approach.