[American in Israel]

Short video:

http://www.lockheed.com/us/products/littoral-combat-ship.html

[Mariner]

The LCS platform is sorta OK. Like all new classes it has continuous systems problems that will be eventually corrected.

But it has a fundamental design flaw in that it can't shoot. No weapons of use beyond visible range.

With a minor redesign for the future platforms...and assuming they can fix the ships systems problems...it could work.

That redesign is to take 1/2 of the over-sized flight deck and put in at least 24tubes of VLS. And associated radars and fire control.

And the current gun is too small.

It is of proper size but just a tad bit expensive.