"Another LCS Breaks Down, This Time in Mid-Pacific" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Sep 2016 3:00 p.m. PST |
" In yet another incident in what is turning out to be a bad year for the US Navy's littoral combat ship program, the LCS Coronado is reported to have suffered a propulsion problem in the mid-Pacific and has turned back to return to Hawaii. The latest issue, this time with an Independence-class LCS variant, follows a series of problems striking ships of the Freedom class. Sources said the Coronado is about 800 nautical miles west of Hawaii, proceeding at about 10 knots. The Military Sealift Command oiler Henry J. Kaiser is accompanying the ship. About 70 sailors are aboard the LCS…"
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| Mako11 | 01 Sep 2016 3:04 p.m. PST |
Thankfully, we don't have more of them, or it could really be embarrassing, and we'd need to increase the size of our seagoing tugboat fleet, considerably! |
| Striker | 01 Sep 2016 4:45 p.m. PST |
Are you saying there is a seagoing tugboat gap? |
| Mako11 | 01 Sep 2016 4:59 p.m. PST |
Shhhhhh, we don't want that getting out……….. |
| zoneofcontrol | 01 Sep 2016 5:20 p.m. PST |
Hopefully the folks at Pearl Harbor have repaired any damage to the dry docks from 12/07/41. A nice upgrade would be to install a revolving doors for quicker in and outs. |
| StarCruiser | 01 Sep 2016 7:34 p.m. PST |
Not only do they not have teeth, have no sea legs to speak of etc… They have no mechanical endurance either. Absolute garbage – massive waste of tax money. |
| Mako11 | 01 Sep 2016 9:09 p.m. PST |
A pity keelhauling is also out of favor, now…….. |
 FingerAndToeModels  | 01 Sep 2016 9:13 p.m. PST |
The real tactic is lure an enemy in to attack an LCS, then we sue. |
| Tango01 | 02 Sep 2016 10:34 a.m. PST |
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| Mako11 | 02 Sep 2016 11:47 a.m. PST |
They'd probably be doing us a favor, since we no doubt are paying through the nose for all those repairs, which should be under warranty as well. |
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