The Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer DDG 1000 is floated out of dry dock at the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine. (image courtesy General Dynamics/US Navy)

Bloomberg: General Dynamics’ Destroyers for U.S. Navy More Than a Year Late

Delivery of General Dynamics Corp.’s first two electric-powered Zumwalt-class destroyers for the U.S. Navy is running more than a year late, in part for lack of enough electricians, according to the service.

Work at the contractor’s Bath Iron Works unit in Maine has fallen behind “due to the complexity of the first-ever all-electric ship and the particular demand it has created for skilled electricians shipyard-wide,” Commander Thurraya Kent, a Navy spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement.

Update #1: US Navy sees year delay in delivery of General Dynamics warships -- Reuters
Update #2: Delivery of first two Zumwalt destroyers delayed -- Defense News

WNU Editor: Three ships costing $22 billion .... and they are late by a year .... what more can anyone say after that.