[Chainmail]

The "Littoral Combat Ship" has been a dud since its conception. The LCS was supposedly meant to provide close-in fire support for amphibious forces (to make it so destroyers and cruisers wouldn't have large guns in the future - the navy never liked the gunfire support mission).

Instead, they have proposed but never added the half-baked fire support weapons that never survived the testing process.

I asked my buds at Dahlgren what the LCS was designed to do and they said "to sink in shallow water".

[PAR35]

Not much shore support you can do with a pop gun. They should have at least used a 3” so they would have been potentially useful defending the Great Lakes from Canada.

Maybe they can be modified for use by the Coast Guard for interdiction.