1.   American military technology could find and sink the new Chinese destroyers in a matter of hours of any conflict.

2.   And members upped the ante for new destroyers.

3.   During the weekend a new Navy destroyer, The Sullivans, was commissioned at a naval station on Staten Island.

4.   That, in turn, could free money to update the military inventory with such items as new destroyers and fighter jets.

5.   The new destroyers are being designed for fewer than a hundred.