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...plated strategic-weapons systems. But, notes Gordon Adams, respected director of the independent Defense Budget Project, "he did not even hint at slowing down any of them." These include the mobile MX/rail garrison missile project (budgeted for $2.8 billion), the B-2 Stealth bomber ($540 million apiece), and the Seawolf submarine ($3.5 billion apiece), not to mention the Strategic Defense Initiative (which the Administration wants to increase from $3.6 billion to $4.5 billion next year...
This approach might justify not building more than one advanced Seawolf attack submarine. The reliable Los Angeles class is still the best attack sub in the world, fully capable of protecting American vessels against enemy prowlers...
...Overdue as Cheney's order may have been, the armed services responded by leaking hastily assembled cut lists, studded with base closings and hard-to-cut weapons systems that are immensely popular on Capitol Hill. Conspicuously absent from the lists were such big-ticket items as the Navy's Seawolf attack submarine, the Air Force's Advanced Tactical Fighter and the Army's LHX attack helicopter. The Navy flouted the spirit of Malta further by scheduling a test of its Trident II submarine-based ballistic missile for Dec. 1 -- the day before the summit begins. The Navy's insensitivity...
Gejdenson warned that an elimination of the two subs could trigger cost overruns on the Seawolf program further down the road...
...first SSN-21 Seawolf was ordered from Electric Boat in January. The original 1990 budget included what would be the final two Los Angeles class subs, with additional Seawolfs being purchased in each subsequent year into the 21st century...