The LCS is a joke as a combat vessels. It’s biggest defense is that a cruise missile might go in one side and out the other without exploding.
They don’t carry enough crew to fight and take care of damage. They have no real offensive weapons.
Right now we are in a bad position in the China Sea and Middle East without enough ships to keep the sea lanes open. Without the support of India and Singapore we would be in worse shape.
We need to rebuild the Navy and build more subs..even DE’s.
The rest of the world is really fortunate that the U.S. Navy is benevolent. But that’s not always a given, piracy in Somalia shows us of a world without US influence.
What you say makes sense. The LCS diagram sure seemed to have little in the way of crew quarters. It looks to my untrained eye mostly like a very expensive, glorified patrol boat.
It probably has some good uses but for first line fighting or defending it looks woefully inadequate.
This is what comes of politicians being in charge of technical warfare matters.