They tried with the Littoral Combat Ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship), but even when

They tried with the Littoral Combat Ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship), but even when explicitly trying to design a ship that's cheap, easy to build and relatively disposable, they couldn't restrain themselves from larding it down with features until it was fat and expensive. And of course most of those features ended up not really working right anyway. Sigh.