New Threat Upgrade and Aegis
12th December 2023
From a certain perspective, the Aegis combat system was one of the worst developments in the history of the Navy. It directly led to the [literal] sinking of an entire class of the best ASW destroyer ever built and has resulted in expensive ships with permanently degraded radar systems. Worse, there was an alternative to Aegis which was the New Threat Upgrade (NTU) program which would have modernized the existing conventional radars and combat systems, providing much the same capabilities.