Tonk would want to be at the helm of this one.
Tonk, know you'll always be with the Quartermaster and Helmsmen.
Posted on 05/03/2008 1:58:16 PM PDT by LJayne
I have no idea how GenDynamics is doing, but this first ship looks absolutley wicked!
Its tri-maran hull combined with the capabilities and look of a warship makes it something out of this world!
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Oooh-ee! I want one of them!
Way C-O-O-L-!!!!!!!!
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Lord Vader your ship is ready .
Very cool, but also very over budget (as is Lockheed’s competing ship). There’s talk the Navy will cancel it.
One look at that hull and you know it’s gonna be fast.
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Tonk would want to be at the helm of this one.
Tonk, know you'll always be with the Quartermaster and Helmsmen.
Which is why the whole LCS concept is fundamentally flawed from the start and massively over-budget. The speed wasn't worth it.
At least LCS-2 isn't quite the embarassing disaster LCS-1 is.
Perfect for ramming.
I fear you may be missing the main point of the new Littoral Combat Ships. Appearances aside, the main new feature of these ships is that there is a very small number of crew required. These ships are far more automated than anything previously conceived.
It looks very dubious whether they will be able to be manned by the small number of people claimed.
The Mission packages have huge numbers of unmanned air, surface, and underwater vehicles. They’re unmanned, but require a lot of specialized maintenance. The FFG-7 ships in the 70s ended up needing 20 more crew than they thought, leaving the ships pretty cramped.
I suspect there are Admirals who would trade places with senior O-4 LCDRs to command this ship.
“Littoral Combat Ships”
To me this sounds like a mission for the Coast Guard, not the U.S. Navy.
That wouldn't help. These are O-5 commands.
I am sorry to see it named the Independence, only because the first war ship I ever visited was the REAL USS Independence
in Norfolk, back in 1963. It is/was quite a ship. I had a great tour by an old ham radio friend who was a legal officer at the naval base. The Intrepid, a smaller carrier was docked beside the Independence.
That’s right. Senior O-4s, the best of their year group who are assured of O-5 upon taking command.
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