Currently, the retarded LCS is less powerful than a single light tank. A total joke. A light 57mm gun and a high angle missile system that is basically the equivalent of an 81 mortar.
It is exempted from historic USN damage control standards.
A WWII Fletcher class destroyer is immensely more deadly. An LCS would be utterly helpless. The Fletcher has a shallower draft.
An LCS cant even operate in shallow water. A single tank on the beach could easily destroy it. All it is good for is the careers of procurement and surface warfare officers by giving them a ship without all the worries of using it to fight.
“An LCS cant even operate in shallow water. A single tank on the beach could easily destroy it. All it is good for is the careers of procurement and surface warfare officers by giving them a ship without all the worries of using it to fight.”
It’s true. If LCS ever has to go into harms way we’re going to see the Navy pull this thing back from the littoral environment they built it for. It cannot defend itself. It’s fast, so maybe they can use it to ferry flag officers around the the carrier group?
I thought the LCS was Dead.
Don’t know much about navel issues but this thing sounds like a floating coffin.