The argument separates the underlying ship design from the decision to make every promised technology arrive with it. When those systems failed to mature on schedule, the ship and program inherited blame for a technology-management choice. Fitting proven interim equipment would have allowed construction to continue while keeping the hulls ready for later upgrades. That modular path could have delivered a useful destroyer class and avoided reducing the fleet to only three highly conspicuous ships.
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Zumwalt's design inherits the blame for unready technology
Bundling immature systems into the Zumwalt program turns technology delays into a shipbuilding failure and leaves the fleet with only three hulls.