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LCS 13 Wichita is to be launched on September 17th.
http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/...5-wichita.html
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Originally posted by surfgun View PostLCS 13 Wichita is to be launched on September 17th.
http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/...5-wichita.html
"Plagued by cost overruns, design and survivability issues, the planned LCS fleet has been winnowed from an original projected force of 52 ships. To fill that gap, the Pentagon has announced a multi-mission frigate."
Its starting to sound like the Navy is losing its appetite for the LCS program and has decided to go with a 'proper' or more conventional frigate design. What chance they decide to cut their loses and pursue other options (say a modified EPF) or just try and get the LCS mine hunting suit up and running and buy just enough of them for this primary role and maybe anti-piracy work as a secondary task.If you are emotionally invested in 'believing' something is true you have lost the ability to tell if it is true.
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LCS 8 Montgomery suffers an engineering casualty .
https://news.usni.org/2016/09/16/lit...rs-engineering
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Wow another one? I'm wondering how much of this is the engineering in the ships and how much is operator error with the weird manning.
My hunch is that it is largely the manning system they cooked up since both classes of LCS have been afflicted by repeated engineering casualties and their internal stuff has different designs.
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Originally posted by surfgun View PostLCS 8 Montgomery suffers an engineering casualty .
https://news.usni.org/2016/09/16/lit...rs-engineering
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An updated report on LCS 8 engineering casualty.
https://news.usni.org/2016/09/16/lit...rs-engineering
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Whew
Originally posted by surfgun View Post
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Originally posted by Tankersteve View PostAlso, while acknowledging how little I know about ship damage control
Missile was likely a C-802. Threat scenario - for LCS - should be seen with a bit of a grain of salt, given the Houthi aren't exactly some backwater militia. Where others would resort to suicide bombers these guys instead have been firing upgraded SCUDs at Saudi military targets several hundred miles behind the front quite regularly over the past 18 months. And with far more success than say Iraq in '91. These ain't the kinda guys where the USN would send a LCS. At least not alone.
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