| Tango01 | 13 Feb 2014 10:08 p.m. PST |
"The Navy's Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, program was dealt a death blow last month when the Pentagon advised the Navy to purchase only 32 of the small, fast and much maligned ships that were originally designed to combat three distinct threats — submarines, mines and groups of small boats. This was absolutely the right move for at least three reasons. The first, and most glaring, deficiency of the LCS is that, as a recent Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation report states, the "LCS is not expected to be survivable in high-intensity combat." While the Pentagon has used similar language in previous reports, the level of detail explaining why the boat wouldn't survive a real fight is unprecedented…"
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| Mako11 | 13 Feb 2014 11:06 p.m. PST |
I'd prefer them to stop at 2. |
 Murphy  | 14 Feb 2014 6:11 a.m. PST |
Well simply put…in laymans terms, they can't say "It's a POS!" in their official report… |
| A Twiningham | 14 Feb 2014 6:31 a.m. PST |
Purchasing "only 32" of a ship that appears unable to do much at somewhere around $440 USD million per ship, and THAT is considered a win these days. Your tax dollars at work. |
| Caesar | 14 Feb 2014 7:42 a.m. PST |
Feel bad for the sailors who will have to man these death traps. |
 Doctor X  | 14 Feb 2014 8:35 a.m. PST |
Bad news for our local shipyard but clearly the right thing to do. |
| Ron W DuBray | 14 Feb 2014 8:52 a.m. PST |
give them to the cost guard they would have a use for them. but even they would put more weapons on them. |
| Phil Gray | 14 Feb 2014 9:13 a.m. PST |
Hmmm.. well I guess, at a pinch, you;d get 5 Zumwalts out of that spend… can they be where the other 27 LCS could be? |
| Lion in the Stars | 14 Feb 2014 10:50 a.m. PST |
You can get a good 9 Burkes out of that spending, though! The Coasties would love to get a ship able to handle a helo… Sounds like the USN should have split the production with the Coasties in the first place. |
| SouthernPhantom | 14 Feb 2014 6:49 p.m. PST |
Yeah, and maybe start producing National Security Cutters with a VLS for the Navy… I'm actually completely serious. The ship's small-craft ramp would be great for SPECFOR and/or counter-piracy, it already has aviation facilities and CIWS. All that would be necessary would be integration of mil-spec radar/fire-control and some survivability measures. |
| Charlie 12 | 14 Feb 2014 10:23 p.m. PST |
Just took a look at the NSC and it looks like much of the radar suite is mil-spec already. You may have a kernel of an idea there… As for the forlorn LCS…. If the Navy has any brains (yeah, I know…), they'll settle on one mission for these hulls and optimize them for that. At least they'd get some use out of them. As it stands now, they're just oversized and underarmed speedboats. |
| Cloudy | 15 Feb 2014 12:11 a.m. PST |
When I read about my government spending my hard-earned tax dollars so stupidly, I feel powerless. When I feel powerless, I want to take the power back. When I want to take the power back, I take karate. When I take karate, I want to use my karate. When I want to use my karate, I become "The Fist of Goodness". When I become "The Fist of Goodness", I run along rooftops and when I run along rooftops, I fall into a dinner party… Don't fall into a dinner party – ditch the LCS! ;-) |
 Legion 4 | 15 Feb 2014 9:31 a.m. PST |
With the current US economic situation, I think the US should concentrate on keeping the current the CVNs, SSBNs, etc. afloat and combat ready/FMC … |
tries out the expansion roads set.
