"Wake me up when the LCS program is about the mission" Topic
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| emckinney | 07 Feb 2013 12:44 p.m. PST |
link Sub hunting? We don't need no stinking sub hunting! Even if you think this is a good addition, they only got around to it on the fifth ship. |
| Deadone | 07 Feb 2013 3:13 p.m. PST |
LCS is a waste of money and resources. To think these are replacing full mission capable frigates. |
| Cloudy | 07 Feb 2013 11:00 p.m. PST |
Another colossal waste of taxpayer dollars. The Independence sure looks cool though… |
| Lion in the Stars | 08 Feb 2013 3:31 a.m. PST |
I'm not entirely sure I can describe a frigate as 'fully mission capable'. At least the Independence class can handle a full-sized helo AND a couple Fire Scouts. I'm still confused as to how the US managed to not build any mission modules for the LCS. |
| Mako11 | 08 Feb 2013 10:53 p.m. PST |
They are very nice looking, if overpriced yachts. Hopefully, someone will get the USN back on track, after the budgets are slashed. |
| Deadone | 10 Feb 2013 3:12 p.m. PST |
"I'm not entirely sure I can describe a frigate as 'fully mission capable'. At least the Independence class can handle a full-sized helo AND a couple Fire Scouts."
An Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate has following capabilities:
- Anti-ship (Harpoon via single arm missile launcher or VLS on updated RAN Adelaide boats))
- Medium Anti-air (Standard or Evolved Sea Sparrow SAM)
- Anti-submarine capability (helicopter + torpedo tubes)
- Ground support (76.2 mm gun)
- 2 helicopters (mainly SH-60B/R Seahawk). That sounds like a pretty comprehensive list of capabilities. The LCS on the other hand has far more limited capabilities: - only a 57mm gun.
- limited planned anti-ship capability (mainly aimed at killing swarms of speedboats)
- more limited ASW capability (basically limited to helicopter)
- Only point defence anti-aircraft defence I'd rather the frigate especially for the Asia Pacific environment. |
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wants to know if you can tell the difference between weaker and stronger magnets with 3mm aircraft.