By Geoff Fein Any plan to sacrifice a DDG-1000 to buy other ships could impact the Navy's surface combatant lines as the service begins developing new classes of ships, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) said. "I am very concerned we do not disrupt our combatant lines," CNO Adm. Gary Roughead told lawmakers yesterday. "Right now we are developing a new fleet of ships. If you look across from submarines to combatants to amphibious ships, we are introducing all new…
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