The Navy didn't want them, the Navy didn't need them, and yet the primes, the Congress, everybody said you're going to have them. So we ran into a number of issues with those. Many of [the littoral combat ships] are... just unusable. So they have been mothballed already. We spent billions and billions and billions of dollars on ships we didn't need. Can't survive. What a waste. That money could have been poured into other systems that we're talking about today. (03:36–03:43)
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