I might be wrong on this ship. I might have it mixed up with another. I often stray from FRee Republic, and peruse other sites primarily sites of maritime interest.
I recall reading about a vessel, an experimental vessel the Navy had decided was about as worthless as you know what on a boar pig. I think this was the vessel. I recall they were looking for some sucker to purchase it, and get them out from under the costs of it all.
Anybody out there that can verify my recollections, or advise what ship I’m actually thinking of I ask to please comment. I remember the vessel I was reading about to be similar of type to transport vehicles as a ferry.
If this is the vessel I was reading about sometime in the past, then it may have been target practice as the Navy was dumping it pricewise. I got the impression someone messed up when they ordered it built, and just wanted it gone.
You may thinking of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). The Navy just announced in the past two weeks or so that its multi mission modular design was deficient and that they were scaling back on the total number of ships being constructed. The ships that are going to be built will be dedicated to single mission configurations. Part of the confusion may arise from the fact that there are two different LCS designs, one of which is a trimaran design.
The High Speed Vessel is a passenger and cargo catamaran ferry of Austrailian design built to commercial not military standards. It’s not a combatant; its role is intratheater logistics. They are lightly armed and would likely not have the detection and jamming system needed to defeat an anti ship missile. It is a successful design built in the US for both the Army and Navy.
By the way, this was a large missile. In the video, you can see the glow of the launch booster rocket as it detaches from the missile after launch.