Yet ANOTHER Lockheed POS!
Easily for a couple of billion dollars. Like Future Combat Systems the basic idea is flawed. It ignores mines, land fired missiles and small attack craft. It’s essentially an aluminum can with no ability to take damage. It will probably need to be escorted by heavier deeper draft ships which knocks it out of the littoral mission it was designed for.
The more LM weeds out its senior engineers as “cost-cutting” measures, the more the government shouldn’t trust their products. The technical knowledge base of the company is being depleted as each month goes by.
The LCS is a failed concept. But no one has the guts to admit it. It will serve as a “flaming datum” once the shooting starts.
In a world of longer range and deadlier weapons, the littoral warfare concept is flawed. LCS is not equipped to properly defend itself. Their solution is to make LCS into an Arleigh Burke. Build more Arleigh Burkes.