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delft said:

I understood the price was $100 million and he took a few planeloads full of businessmen with him, hardly a vacation, even if wife and daughters came too.
But I wonder what Xi's trip cost. And he too came to do business.

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The number was $300 million two weeks ago, and then the admin came out and said it was going to actually be $100 million. Sorry, I simply do not believe them...sort of like that unknown film that no one had ever seen before the admin announced that it was the cause of Benghazi attack last year. And then going out and telling that to the world and that it was not an organized terror attack. They have no credibility left.

Fact is, they spend money like it is going out of style on the trips, programs, and efforts they want...like $30 million in bonuses to the IRS employees, but then they use the military like a political football.

And the African trip business? Please, Obama is in constant campaign mode, which means lavish dinners and shoulder time with the people who donate money to him. That is what those people with him are really there for.

Anyhow...I'll end my rant. I have family and close friends suffering in the military right now...and their hardships are being handed out with a will to try and influence the politicians who do not agree with Obama's agenda to come to the table and give in. As I said...sad times.

But I wonder what Xi's trip cost. And he too came to do business.

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Xi cost less.
The President of the United states of America costs a lot to move.
A trip involves a vertual invasion. Ahead of Time The USAF Are packing C17's With fleets of Armored Vehicles. A single motorcade can have as many as thirty vehicles Including ambulences, Escort vehicles, Communications Vehicles, Counter assult Vehicles ( armored SUV's with mini guns.) Counter Assault teams, The Presidential limo plus spares, Aditional VIP transports for Aides and other guests as well as backups. The President is likely being moved with double maybe triple redundent motorcades for protection and decoy. They also fly in Marine one VH60 Helicopers ( plural) At least Three not counting transports for the press and aides. Fuel and equipment for the airport used by Airforce one and the Marine One as well as fuel for the Vip motorcades may be flown in for Airports unequiped for such. If a Airport lacks the equipment for a Jumbo Jet the US "gifts" it to them.
The president is Flown in with not one but two Boeing V25A Airforce one aircraft. Add to this Security personel in need of housing and equiping. not just securing the Obama's but the Airport The Aircraft the vehicles they may even fly in chefs and food.
The price is very high And that list stays that way no matter if it's a trip to Kenya or Smallville( well maybe not as Smallville is fictional.)
By contrast Although It is likely That the PLAAF 34th division would Fly multiple 737 VIP types. Along with a army of Security only the British Monarch and the President of Russia Fly in there own fleets of vehicles like the US. That means A lot of Security are barrwoed from the host nation. As are a lot of vehicles. This would drop the price a lot, And helps due to the availability and priority of Chinese Airforce transports which is still a weak spot for the PLA. You may be able to load a single Red Flag HQE armored limo on a Y8 transport but a whole fleet of them and other armored vehicles and helicopters would demand a squadren of Il76's And the PLAAF has only like what 40? Compare that to the 224 C17's that alow such a massive lagistical foot print.

Good news for Mr Arleigh Burke

Congress has passed $2.8 billon contract with General Dynamics Bath Iron Works for four DDG and opition of one more

In addition $3.3 billion to Ingalls for five DDG, this means money for 9 units with opition of 1 more Likely to be funded

This is all Flight IIA ships which will take them up to Flight III DDG-123

asif iqbal said:

Good news for Mr Arleigh Burke

Congress has passed $2.8 billon contract with General Dynamics Bath Iron Works for four DDG and opition of one more

In addition $3.3 billion to Ingalls for five DDG, this means money for 9 units with opition of 1 more Likely to be funded

This is all Flight IIA ships which will take them up to Flight III DDG-123

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Yes. This was a big story towards the first of June. Here's one of the releases:

Defese News said:

June 3, 2013
WASHINGTON — Construction contracts worth more than $6 billion were awarded Monday to shipbuilders General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls to build nine new DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the US Navy announced, with an option for a tenth ship.

The awards keep destroyer construction humming at a pace that has been maintained since the DDG 51 class was restarted in 2009.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) received a $3,331,476,001 fixed-price-incentive firm target (FPIF) contract for the design and construction of five ships, one each in fiscal 2013 to 2017, the Navy said in a press release. The ships will all be built at the company’s Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss.

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) was awarded a $2,843,385,450 FPIF contract for the design and construction of four ships, one in 2013 and one each in 2015 to 2017. The award also includes a contract option for a fifth ship, which, if approved, about be added to 2014.

The Navy officially has asked Congress to fund one ship in 2014, but is seeking multi-year procurement (MYP) authority to add a second ship in 2014, hence the option for another ship. Congress is generally disposed to support adding the ship, and the service, in a press release, said it is working with Capitol Hill “to resolve funding shortfalls resulting from sequestration reductions before contracting the tenth ship.”

HII received the five-ship MYP award due to a lower bid, which works out to about $666 million per ship. BIW’s four-ship award comes to nearly $711 million per ship.

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The current status of the builds is as follows:

62nd vessel: DDG-112 USS Michael Murphey Commissioned Oct 6, 2012
63rd vessel: DDG-113 USS John Finn (1st of new Contract Ships: IIA Restart)
64th vessel: DDG-114 USS Ralph Johnson (2nd of new Contract Ships: IIA Restart)
65th vessel: DDG-115 USS Rafael Prralta (3rd of new Contract Ships: IIA Restart)
66th vessel: DDG-116 USS Thomas Hudner (4th of new Contract Ships: IIA Technology Insert)
67th vessel: DDG-117 USS Paul Ignatius (5th of new Contract Ships: IIA Technology Insert)
68th vessel: DDG-118 USS Daniel Inouye (6th of new Contract Ships: IIA Technology Insert)
69th vessel: DDG-119 Not named Yet (7th of new Contract Ships: IIA Technology Insert)
70th vessel: DDG-120 Not named Yet (8th of new Contract Ships: IIA Technology Insert)
71st vessel: DDG-121 Not named Yet (9th of new Contract Ships: IIA Technology Insert)
72nd vessel: DDG-122 Not named Yet (10th of new Contract Ships: IIA Technology Insert)

73rd vessel: DDG-123 Not named Yet (1st Flight III Areligh Burke)
74th vessel: DDG-124 Not named Yet (2nd Flight III Areligh Burke)
75th vessel: DDG-125 Not named Yet (3rd Flight III Areligh Burke)
76th vessel: DDG-126 Not named Yet (4th Flight III Areligh Burke)
77th vessel: DDG-127 Not named Yet (5th Flight III Areligh Burke)
78th vessel: DDG-128 Not named Yet (6th Flight III Areligh Burke)
79th vessel: DDG-129 Not named Yet (7st Flight III Areligh Burke)
80th vessel: DDG-130 Not named Yet (8th Flight III Areligh Burke)

Right now there are 62 Burkes. This will bring it up to 72 Burkes. Then the Flight III Burkes will start building, replacing the Ticonderoga Cruisers.

Nice one!

For some reason there was a delay in this moths Warship magazine, the July issue only came out today when usually it should have came out around two weeks ago, it's always a month ahead but on this occasion they didn't publish the magazine till now hence my late news!!

Arleigh Burke will continue production for a very long time to come, well into the next decade, Flight III will follow and the final destroyer tally may well top the 100 unit mark!

Construction of the new KC-46A started

Guam Permanent Missile Defense System



Alpha 4 THAAD battery, each battery have 3 launchers ( 8 missiles by launchers ), with a very sophisticated radar, later 6 launchers by battery.

4 THAAD battery belongs to the 11 ADA Brigade to Ft Bliss.

Ground-based missile-defense system in Romania

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Ground-based missile-defense system in Romania

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Yes, the AEGIS Ashore System,

I wrote of this developent and its deployment in my novel series , in 2000 and 2001.

Now, my fiction has become reality!

Jeff Head said:

Yes, the AEGIS Ashore System,

I wrote of this developent and its deployment in my novel series

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, in 2000 and 2001.

Now, my fiction has become reality!

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Top that off with the X-47B coming aboard the CVN George Bush, what a day, at 13:40 this afternoon the world witnessed the first trap of a UCAV on a CVN, stranger than fiction! brat