NAVY’S $670 MILLION FIGHTING SHIP IS ‘NOT EXPECTED TO BE SURVIVABLE,’ PENTAGON SAYS!
These words have haunted the Navy ever since Gilmore’s office uttered them in December 2011: “LCS is not expected to be survivable in a hostile combat environment.” At a Navy expo in April 2012, Secretary Ray Mabus insisted that LCS is “a warship and it is fully capable of going into combat situations,” while heralding the LCS’ 2013 deployment to Singapore.
https://www.wired.com/2013/01/littoral-combat-ship/
The swabs have gotta quit pizzing on the bulkhead.
Those two statements are not mutually exclusive.
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