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Originally Posted by dundonrl
sounds like they are trying to cram too much stuff into too small of a hull...VLS is fine, but if it adds too much weight and slows down the ship, what good is it.. besides the Arleigh Burke over the horizon will have plenty of VLS cells to take care of what needs to be done..
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The LCS is designed for modularity. Instead of putting every type of weapon on one ship, a la the Burke, it swap packages based on the mission.
The weight isn't the problem, its the distribution of the weight I've seen complaints about. Too much stuff at the rear and not enough forward. Besides who really needs a 40 knot minesweeper anyway? In my view the LCS would have been fine with a speed of 30-35 knots, the money saved on larger engines and other systems could have been used to buy more weapons modules and for a intergal VLS.