13 ft. draft is not going to get me into my favorite fishing spots...
Nerf foam guns and transgender quarters, I suppose.
Mayport is going to get several of these ships?
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Its a sister ship to the USS Detroit isn’t it?
I’m not naval savvy but it looks very similar.
Wisconsin ? Chinese are on lake michigan ?
no active sonar dome?
Please explain to me why we need this type of vessel?
Surprised it’s not named the USS Caitlyn Jenner.
Another little crappy ship with only a pea shooter to protect it.
Thank heavens that thing is in the water. It would need wheels or tracks if it was on the ground. The Russians tried putting propellers on some of their armored vehicles. They could never get them more than two or three feet off the ground.
Another useless, under-armed, mission-incapable LCS.
As far as I am concerned an LCS is a good concept. The key of course is not to make it a “do everything” vessel. It needs to be tailored to a specific role and used there almost exclusively.
In some ways the way the current navy views an LCS is much like the Navy of WWII viewed the battle cruiser. A battle cruiser carried Battleship guns but not the armor of a battleship. So what did the Admiral’s do? They tried to use it as a Battleship. And they got sunk because of that wrong usage of their capabilities.
The Battle cruiser was the ideal ship at the time for use in Merchant Marine raiding. Setting one free on the Japanese merchant fleet would have diverted combat ships from all over the pacific to hunt them down.
That in turn would have made the actual combat missions the Japanese needed those vessels for in dire straits indeed.
It’s all a matter of using your resources carefully and in most cases for the missions they were built for vs. those they weren’t really qualified for.
Wisconsin’s Marinette Shipyard launches first new combat ship in US fleet.
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I have wondered about the rationale behind having two classes of LCS. In the era of tight budgets, wouldn’t having just one class be more cost efficient? Are the missions of the two classes so different that both are needed?