We’ll live to see the day when aircraft carriers, just like battleships before them, will be obsolete.
Oh,frigates. I though it said “forgets”,
Who the hell ever came up with that name in the first place? Some bureaucrat?
My first ship in the Navy was USS Harry E. Yarnell DLG-17. My mother absolutely hated that term. She was upset that she had to tell people that I was on a guided missile frigate. She would have been quite pleased when they redesignated them guided missile cruisers and changed the hull number to CG-17.
There will be friggin’ in the riggin’ on the figates.
Frigates must be capable of independent action, able to hold their own against some unexpected foe, and able to complete their assigned mission. They must also be capable of operating as a part of the fleet and performing some critical task in the midst of a fleet action.
This definition is from the age of sail, but holds true today. the LCS should not be rated a frigate, for it is not and cannot be. In the Royal Navy of the 18th and 19th Century, it would be unrated: a ship sloop or a brig. Capable of performing critical tasks, including inshore tasks or cutting out actions, and capable of enforcing the command of seas against merchant vessels, pirates, and vessels of equal or lesser force. But, these most valuable ships are not frigates, for they cannot stand with the fleet and must avoid decisive engagement with superior ships.
The LCS is a ship sloop, but she costs a fortune which obviates all the advantages of an unrated vessel.
Mabus is a few sails short of a frigate.
A total incompetent moron.
I believe they were designed to sink in shallow water.
I seem to recall that one new ship was going to be cancelled by the Navy. Wasn’t that the Litoral ship?
you can call a leg a tail, it’s still a leg.
Put some of those little drones on it and call it an aircraft carrier.
Frig em’ all.
“Patrol Boat” makes more sense.
Politicians putting lipstick on a pig.
Frigate about it!