WTF?
Gee, when the Missouri hit the lock wall, it gashed the wall. Aluminum ships now?
Why didn’t it crack the Panama Canal?
Damn..now the Chinese know how to know it out of action.....Hit it with a Canal!!!
Oh Maaaannnnn!!!
The new locks or the old ones?
We will hopefully do a Westbound transit sometime next fall..
have to make sure to look for day-bree..
maybe they need SAFER walls like Nascar.
Guess that aluminum hull is pretty fantastic.
I was leery of allowing women in the Navy. Now it appears they’re letting them pilot the ships.
again???
Who’s driving this thing?
I had a project on board that ship. My opinion is that the ship would be unsafe in combat. It is no better armored than a pleasure boat.
Even non-state actors are firing anti-ship missiles from shore. Hezbollah, in Lebanon has managed to hit five vessels that I know of. It seriously damaged an Israeli patrol boat and the Israelis now run with their anti-missile systems active at all times. (Hezbollah sank a Greek freighter.)
The Independence class mission is to go into harm’s way. But it isn’t tough enough for Harm’s neighborhood.
What did we expect? A nation that dresses girls and fairies like soldiers and pretends they can fight now parades them around in delicate warships. And we are picking new fights. This will not end well.
According to the link, a Panama Canal Pilot was at the controls when the collision took place.
There is an 18 inch crack where the transom plate joins the port quarter plate, so, I guess the rear end must have swung wide.
Then, there is this astounding quote:
“The USS Montgomery is small enough to fit into the Panama Canal’s old locks, which use mules...to make the transit.”
I was not ready for that!
Any excuse to get stuck at port for repairs until Trump is in office would work for me.
Get a new captain.
As an old welder, I have to say:
SHI++Y welding! For plates to crack is inexcusable. The welding should be so excellent on a warship that the metal would bend to its yield point like taffy before a weld would crack.
The manufacturer should be ashamed to put such a vessel to sea.
Ashamed.
Arming our military with cheap crap so our tax payers can be raped by the Military Industrial Complex.
Treason.
"How DOD Torture-Tested Its New Aluminum LCS" -- by banging it on the walls of the Panama Canal.
Like swiftboats
MADE OF ALUMINUM FOIL
To the lowest bidder
Politicians are scumbags selling America out...
If you take it up the ass and swallow
YOU GET AHEAD IN TOAY’S. N. A. V. Y
Who’s sailin’ da boat????