Posted on 01/15/2015 8:38:13 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Jan 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Thursday said the Navy would rename the modified Littoral Combat Ships it plans to build in coming years as "frigates," given their enhanced capabilities.
"One of the requirements of the Small Surface Combatant Task Force was to have a ship with frigate-like capabilities. Well, if it's like a frigate, why don't we call it a frigate?" Mabus told the annual conference of the Surface Navy Association.
Mabus said the changed designation would apply primarily to the next 20 ships to be built, but 32 earlier Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) that have either been built or ordered would also be reclassified if and when
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Ahhhhh ... frigate !
lipstick on a pig.
Build more Arleigh Burkes.
What a bunch of bilge water.
Is it littorally a frigate?
Frigate ...?
Frigate, Frigate, ... I kind of like the sound of that, said the CINC.
I decree: call them all Frigates.
And I will spend the rest of the day decreeing Frigate, Frigate, Frigate, Frigate them all. Frigate the Tea Party. Frigate with Boehner. Frigate on the golf course. Frigate with Reggie.
It’s good to be CINC.
Not even a 76mm let alone a 5” and no AAW to speak of - even the OHPs had at least SM1s. Wonder how many SSMs and Hellfires they can carry.
Recent news releases have suggested they may get the Norwegian missile that was demonstrated at Rimpac 2014.
LCS = little crappy ship
CINC feels better about the fleet now ...
We’ve actually danced this dance before with the DE’s. Scared hell out of the enemy IIRC.
Ping
This absolutly PISSES ME OFF!
We are going t ospend how many tens of MILLIONS of dollars on documentation chages, and not ONE, NOT ONE, system is going to get fixed or incorporated into the Lille Crappy Ships to make them MISSION SURVIVABLE!!!
I want the assholes responsible for this latest clusterfuck in Levenwoth for treason!!!
What the rest of the world was calling a frigate (one step down from a destroyer) we were calling a destroyer escort (DE). What we called a frigate at the time was really a “destroyer leader” hence the DL pennant number at the time. Those got redesignated as cruisers.
As for the Little Crappy Ship, you have the size of a frigate, the functionality of a corvette, at the price of a real cruiser.
Why not rename them “battleships” to REALLY scare the enemy!
“Behemoth” or “dreadnought” would be good too.
No matter what they call them, the guys in the Subs call them targets.
Story I heard was some congressman asked how a DDG could possibly cost so much. Navy response: Did I say destroyer? No no no! It's a cruiser!"
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