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Can't see how this is relevant to the USN topic but such decisions are usually threat based as much as economics.
For the USN, I always thought it was unusual that they have not invested further in deploying guided 57mm or 76mm munitions. There were start/stops programs which seems to have led to nowhere. Given the drone and surface swarm threats as we saw in the Red Sea, these would be cost effective options compared to missiles.
Northrop Grumman to Develop New Guided Ammunition for the US Navy - EDR Magazine
PLYMOUTH, Minn. – Oct. 4, 2023 – The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) a development contract
www.edrmagazine.eu
One snag I see with the BBG is that it's being touted as carrying nuclear armed cruise missiles. Will that be a breach of any existing arms agreement? And will the nuclear tipped TLAM be sufficient or will this require a new platform and potentially a new warhead? And yes, I'm over thinking here, it's incredibly unlikely this thing will ever get to the stage of cutting steel.
AndyinOz
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From memory it wouldn't be a breach of any formal Treaty as such but it would be a change from the 1991 Presidential Nuclear Initiatives arrangement that was put in place by Bush Snr insofar as tactical nuclear weapons were removed from surface vessels. I tend to agree it might be a moot point in terms of it coming to fruition. Then again stranger things could happen.