The cost of a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine has soared to $9.4 billion each, yet Congress is still insisting on continuing production.

U.S. Navy: Nuclear submarines are too expensive, we can't afford them!

Commissioner Smith: Don't stop, keep building!

According to cost estimates by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office based on the value of the 2024 dollar, the procurement unit price of a Virginia Block 5 attack nuclear submarine for the U.S. Navy has climbed to $5.1 billion, and the next-generation Columbia-class strategic nuclear submarine currently under construction is as high as $9.4 billion.

What does $9.4 billion mean? In other countries, it would be enough to build an entire aircraft carrier strike group, but in the United States, it can only buy one strategic nuclear submarine. Everyone knows that U.S. military equipment is very expensive, but no one expected it to be so ridiculously expensive. If this continues, it will indeed be quite difficult for the U.S. military to maintain 11 aircraft carrier strike groups or 14 strategic nuclear submarines in the future.

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