If it was a solved problem, the new LCS class wouldn't suffer from a design defect:
Yes, it IS a solved problem: naval engineers know what to do and how to do it.
The fact that design mistakes are sometimes made — i.e. what we know isn’t properly applied — doesn’t negate that.
Over the two-hundred-forty year course of our naval history, we’ve had hundreds and hundreds of ships with solid thirty, forty, fifty year lifetimes. Do you deny that?
ONE class of ship with a design flaw is the exception that proves the rule.
And that flaw will be fixed. Soon. Bet on it.