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Op-Ed: Navy Deep-Sixes Stealthy DDG 1000 Destroyer Even As China Wields Hundreds Of Ship-Killer Missiles

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By Dave Ahearn Just as China has deployed hundreds of missiles aimed at the Taiwan Strait, the U.S. Navy is moving to abandon production of cutting-edge DDG 1000 destroyers with radar-evading capabilities in favor of buying a few more old-style DDG 51 ships that have all the stealth of the wide side of a barn. While the DDG 1000, all 14,564 long tons of it, will show up on an enemy radar as nothing more than a fishing boat, the…

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