"The U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship: A Beautiful Disaster?" Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 Mar 2020 3:22 p.m. PST |
"Is it time to admit the U.S. Navy's littoral combat ships are a failure? Yes. And no—maybe. In 2004 President George W. Bush pronounced the overthrow of Saddam Hussein a "catastrophic success," implying the invasion was an operational triumph in the early going but gave off grave if not debilitating strategic and political fallout later on. It's the other way around with the littoral combat ship (LCS), a program that has fulfilled little if any of its early promise yet could provide value in the future if put to creative tactical use. The reverse pattern from Iraqi Freedom could hold for the LCS: catastrophe comes first, ultimate success later. Time will tell…"
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| Thresher01 | 10 Mar 2020 8:02 p.m. PST |
A terrible waste of hard-earned, taxpayer money, when the USN and America can ill afford it. |
| Tango01 | 11 Mar 2020 11:33 a.m. PST |
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| Howler | 11 Mar 2020 4:26 p.m. PST |
They're built just north of Green Bay, Wi a little over an hour away from my home. Look pretty cool when they're put into the water |
| arealdeadone | 11 Mar 2020 7:52 p.m. PST |
I really don't think the LCS has any role in a combat zone – it's under gunned, undermanned and built mainly to civilian standards, not military ones (level 1 at most, which meant it was not capable of surviving a hit by larger AShMs). These ships should ideally be given to the Coast Guard though from what I read they don't have the seakeeping abilities for open ocean operations. Modularity was an excellent idea that didn't work out in practice. It worked out for the Danes with their Stanflex system which is installed on most of their ships ranging from 300 ton patrol boats to 6,600 ton frigates. |
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