I'm liking it. USS Halsey (DDG-97) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.
An LCS will now be called frigate? What a joke! Someone has way too much time on their hands.
Perhaps they’ll consider replacing the LHD-1 USS Wasp. That was a horrible ship. Sixteen crappers in the birthing all tied into a horizontal sewer line, so when the ship rocked, the ones on each end would gurgle sewage onto the deck. The power would go out in random parts of the ship. Every time the baking galley made bread or pastries, they would burn it and the smoke would travel through the ventilation system to our berthing.
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Always fighting the last war and more admirals than ships means the U.S. Navy is in the hurt locker. Fewest vessels since before WWI. Need more blue water ships and fewer brass hats. China and Russia are back, and they’re not just building brown water “expeditionary” vessels.
the administration is artificially inflating the number of surface combatants in the fleet without actually adding anything of substance to the navy.
typical obamite smoke and mirrors.
Are they painted pink?
. Will someone please tell me what's wrong with classifying ships that way.
These are not fit for combat. I served on the USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and it was armored. These littoral ships are thin-skilled and just about anything would punch a hole in it from one side to another.
Impressive. When the Australian navy had one it was just an mere AKR (RollOn/PollOff Cargo Ship). The Timor Intervention would have gone so much better if it was an Expeditionary Fast Transport.
Another description might be "good ideas gone bad" except that it would only apply to the original LCS concept.
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