More expensive than the missiles designed to sink it. So I would love to see that work being done. Now the survivability here rests on lasers, rail guns and interceptors that don't exist yet. Is that correct, Congressman? The ship as it is right now can defend itself. I mean it's got 200 VLS cells. Do we have from railguns, do we have railguns that are actually functional right now? (04:01–04:07)
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