"About the USS Sioux City" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Feb 2014 9:58 p.m. PST |
"The Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy's eleventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Sioux City, in a ceremony held at Marinette Marine Corporation. The industry team is building Freedom-class LCSs for the U.S. Navy, and has delivered two ships with five others under construction and one soon to begin construction. The nation's first LCS, USS Freedom, completed her deployment to Southeast Asia, during which she participated in multiple international maritime exercises, conducted patrols in the South China Sea and provided disaster relief for Operation Damayan. As USS Freedom proved, the ship class is addressing the Navy's need for an affordable, highly-networked and modular ship unlike any other in the world. The platform is designed and outfitted with mission systems to conduct a variety of missions including anti-surface, mine and submarine warfare. The next LCS to deploy will be the Freedom-class USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) in 2014…"
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| GarrisonMiniatures | 21 Feb 2014 1:51 p.m. PST |
Now that they've been around a while, how do these things currently look? Still mainly negative thoughts or are they starting to look useful? |
| Charlie 12 | 21 Feb 2014 5:44 p.m. PST |
Well, with the DoD moving to cancel the program at 32 ships (instead of the full 50) and the 'mission modules' being canceled or severely delayed, I think you can say that its a DOG… |
| Lion in the Stars | 22 Feb 2014 12:52 p.m. PST |
Now that they've been around a while, how do these things currently look? Still mainly negative thoughts or are they starting to look useful? Lack of mission modules makes them useLESS. |
| SouthernPhantom | 24 Feb 2014 9:15 a.m. PST |
As I've said, slap some VLS and torpedo tubes on her. The Boghammar-plinking role is frankly better filled by loitering SDB II platforms. |
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