“Why not hook up the littoral class ships for remote control and use them?”
That’s actually not a bad idea. It beats the hell out of just scrapping them and turning them into razor blades.
My original — more serious — suggestion was to give them to the Philippine Navy, but many FReepers told me they are mechanically defective and require more maintenance than they are worth.
But seems to me that a navy could find a way to cannibalize the working parts and put them into one or two serviceable ships.
I wish. The hulls were made out of aluminum. Aluminum and salt water don't like each other. If you put aluminum in salt water, in a couple of years the aluminum will have microscopic holes in it. And the holes turn into cracks. Supposedly, the aluminum was to be covered in some type of epoxy to protect it. Well, that did not turn out so well.
Weren't they made of aluminum?