Take that Putin, we don’t need no Navy ships because WE ARE AMERICA and therefore WE ARE INVINCIBLE!!!!
As long as they’re diverse and get pronouns right, doesn’t really matter, does it? /s
I had a project that was killed by putting it on the Littoral combat ship. Our sled, a mine sweeper, had to be towed by the largest helicopter. Towing it with the small copter on the littoral combat ship was very, very dangerous. the connecting cable which was a zero profit item, cost $50,000. Every time the sled hit a wave, the copter pilot would hit the emergency disconnect, which guillotined the cable. Pretty soon, we’d run the entire project out of budget. Something we warned the navy about, and which everyone involved understood. But the admiral in charge wanted to put every mission under the sun on this crappy little boat that couldn’t do the jobs they wanted. So, count in fifty-four million dollars lost because of this and it won’t be in the totals. Put it under “other.”
OK, discuss: Provide examples of an overly literal combat ship.
When I drive by Bremerton Naval ship yard, I see two of these berthed there in moth balls, sitting rusting.
The navy got jealous of the air force and all the gee-whiz stuff they kept tacking onto every new airplane?
Hey, let’s do with ships what the Germans do with BMWs, more and more electrical crap to fail.
The LCS started with a poor concept. Littoral combat with a 57mm gun? The basic parameters should have started with a 3” class gun.
Absent the propulsion issues, they might have been a decent concept for a coast guard cutter.
The Zumwalt was a decent concept on the other hand, there were just too many hands in the till to execute it properly.
The drones will be the most important ships going forward.
Wrong?
Answer: The paper pushing “think tank” industry of The Beltway.
disaster? WTF? that was a “SUCCESS” by any MIC standards...