== Too Young to die == 

 An interesting article by Young pleading for the DD(X), but he doesn't mention the ABM issues the Navy noted for the cancellation. 

 http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3935896&c;=AME&s;=SEA 
 "There are a lot of reports that you can upgrade 51s, but I will tell you, you cannot do that without significant changes in that ship. You will have to add cooling capacity, you will have to add electrical generating capacity, and this ship has already gained weight because it's like [20] years into its service life. And ships are designed with a certain amount of weight-carrying capacity. Putting more radar will definitely add more weight, eat up more of its [design] margins, and - oh by the way, the ship prices I gave you [for the first ship of a restarted DDG 51 production line] of $2.1 billion and $2.7 billion are not ships with more cooling, more electrical generating capability and more radar. That will push the price up of that ship significantly close, if not beyond, 1000.