Posted on 03/20/2022 3:32:34 PM PDT by Spktyr
Sub Brief on YouTube, a former Navy sub sonarman, gives further details and discusses the LCS debacle here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRccQo9vTI4
“Navy Wants To Retire 10 Littoral Combat Ships According To Report”
Sending another STRONG MESSAGE to Putin. But the Bidenistas here will LOVE IT!!!
Billion dollar boondoggles is what our military does best.
How many billions in taxpayer money snarfed up by fat, connected defense contractors? With campaign kickbacks to the politicians.
You’re going to have some failures and some successes.
Spot on. Some of these are made in my backyard and this will impact the state, but these things have been a disaster pretty much from the get-go and riddled with billions in cost overruns, redesigns. Yeah, honestly about a decade too late.
Shane no one said this would happen 10 years ago! Great plan. Build a class of ships for an undefined mission. Without the “mission modules” to support. To date, I don’t believe any of the planned interchangeable modules have actually been delivered.
It’s enough to make you sick sometimes.
“Billion dollar boondoggles is what our military does best.”
I can attest that the DoD is rife with money holes. This probably applies across the entire Federal government, but I only have first-hand knowledge of DoD shenanigans.
Just saw one of these sitting in the decommissioning row at Bremerton today.
Except the Navy was told this would fail at the outset and no one put in the brakes.
Ping
Everyone associated with pushing this disaster through congress should be in prison for no less than 20 years.
If we were at war, they should be hung.
Combining gear technology.
Yeah, that’ll work,
if they add NSFO(NavyStandardFuelOil) boilers, wind, solar and sails.
It was a bad idea from the word GO.
They should have said STOP years ago.
Actually, these ships had *huge* problems and while they were advertised as combat ships they were not actually combat capable. They had been relegated to a training role as they were far slower than they were supposed to be. Watch the video I linked. Those things are deathtraps.
Could someone summarize the problem with the propulsion system?
So they have 9, and want to decommision 8-10? Sounds like they are planning to buy more to immediately decommission.
My suggestion - make Lockheed eat the ones that are in various stages of pre-commision work.
Who is getting kickbacks?
Actually, a lot of people were saying this back when the ships were first put in commission. Those in the Navy criticizing the idea were purged.
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