Posted on 08/23/2010 5:21:28 PM PDT by Nachum
The Navy indicated Monday there would be a several-month delay in awarding a high-profile combat ship contract.
The Navy was expected to announce the winner of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) contract this summer. Instead, it will take several more months to weigh the competitors’ offers.
Lockheed Martin, teamed with Wisconsin-based Marinette Marine and Alabama-based Austal USA, a unit of Australian Austal Ltd., are competing for the contract, which is initially worth about $5 billion for 10 shore-hugging combat ships and includes combat systems for five additional ships.
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The list, ping
This administration will make it political. obamar will decide based on where he can pull votes. It won’t be in Alabama.
the navy has to figure out were to put the transgendered bathrooms and sleeping quarters.
Heck, for that kind of money we can buy an F-22.
Just a couple of comments:)
1. That we are down to less than 300 ships is a SERIOUS National Security Issue. Nothing projects graduated power like an effective Navy...and it's the US Navy that has been the bulwerk of our national security for over 200 years.
2. These are not "Littoral Combat Ships". A littoral combat ship is a BB. This idea that small, pinpoint explosives (at ENORMOUS COST) is a substitute for tonnage (and I'm talking about ordinance here, not displacement) is one of the biggest blunders in modern naval thinking. When it comes to hitting a beach, you need guns. Big ones. Lots of them. Yeah, a modern vessel needs Aegis, Phalanx, VLS for cruise missles etc, but there is not now and probably never will be a substitute for big GUNS when it comes to putting men on a beach.
3. "Sweeping mines" and "Chasing Pirates" used to be handled by Mine Sweepers, Patrol Boats and Frigates...at FAR FAR less cost than $500mil a copy...and you could put a Frigate, 5 mine sweepers and 10 Patrol Boats at sea with that much money...with modern weapons.
I don't know what these guys are thinking in the Chrystal Palace, but numbers, speciality and proven models matter. I hope this isn't a few Congressmen pushing a White Elephant.
Zero is checking whether Ahmanutjob would like to quote on the job!
Saw all the news today showing ‘nutjob crowing about his new “Ambassador of Death” cruise missile. I’m sorry to feel this way, but that mouthy little ba$tard seems to be so fascinated by DEATH, he’d better thank his lucky camel dung that I don’t run the world. He would have been toast long ago! That venue where he gives his long-winded speeches threatening Israel and the USA would have been programmed into a cruise missile many moons ago. I understand that OUR cruise missiles are accurate within about 3 feet. Close enough for loudmouthed insane little tyrants!
Zero is checking whether Ahmanutjob would like to quote on the job!
Saw all the news today showing ‘nutjob crowing about his new “Ambassador of Death” cruise missile. I’m sorry to feel this way, but that mouthy little ba$tard seems to be so fascinated by DEATH, he’d better thank his lucky camel dung that I don’t run the world. He would have been toast long ago! That venue where he gives his long-winded speeches threatening Israel and the USA would have been programmed into a cruise missile many moons ago. I understand that OUR cruise missiles are accurate within about 3 feet. Close enough for loudmouthed insane little tyrants!
The money is better spent on other platforms.
The other Austal ships are Aluminum. How are these things armored?
They are not. No modern ship is.
They are compartmentalized. A 500lb explosive, if it hits, can take out the superstructure of most modern vessels.
They are designed to fight at sea from dozens to hundreds of miles apart...
However, a BB can take a hit from anything but a nuke a keep on pumping 2000lb shells at the beach.
PING!
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