Not enough sailors?.....................
Brand-new, literally...
I can only guess that it’s a test ship to see how it performs. They are finished testing it, so they are now decommissioning it. They should give it to the Coast Guard, so it is designed for to patrol the US coast.
Winning!
Can I purchase it as a fishing boat at Navy Surplus?
MIC Cha-ching!
The general debacle of the LCS series can be further read here:
https://gcaptain.com/navy-risks-blowback-in-bid-to-scrap-5-billion-of-troubled-ships/
Biden at work, using budgeting to destroy our Navy one ship at a time, while setting up shore schools to teach sailors about transgender acculturation and how to administer oral resucitation.
The decommissioned ships cost $5 Billion to build. While the ships were built to spend 25 years at sea. The Navy claims scrapping the ships will save a projected $4.3 Billion in upgrades and maintenance over coming years.
showing more weakness to the world
“Sioux City becomes the fourth LCS to be decommissioned, following the lead Freedom-class ship, Freedom (LCS-1), and the first two Independence-class ships, Independence (LCS-2) and Coronado (LCS-4).
The U.S. Navy plans to scrap nine of a total 16 Freedom-class LCS well short of their planned service lives in order to save a projected $4.3 billion in upgrades and maintenance.”
the real problem is its name. you know how certain people hate to use the name of any native American tribe to name something so anything and everything that “denigrates” them must be renamed or eliminated.
I’ll take it.
Hummm. This has me thinking that perhaps I should decommission my 12 year old car.
Looks like they could remodel them to use in another task. May not be perfect but still workable.
In 2002, the Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships.[11] The Navy initially ordered two monohull ships from Lockheed Martin, which became known as the Freedom-class littoral combat ships after the first ship of the class, USS Freedom.[11][12] Odd-numbered littoral combat ships are built using the Freedom-class monohull design, while even-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the trimaran hull Independence-class littoral combat ship from General Dynamics.[11] The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Freedom-class design.[11] Sioux City is the sixth Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be built.
Sioux City includes additional stability improvements over the original Freedom design; the stern transom was lengthened and buoyancy tanks were added to the stern to increase weight service and enhance stability.[13] The ship will also feature automated sensors to allow “conditions-based maintenance” and reduce crew overwork and fatigue issues that Freedom had on her first deployment.
In May 2022, Sioux City was assigned to the Sixth Fleet, while she was equipped with a surface warfare module. In late May, Sioux City was re-assigned to the Fifth Fleet and assigned to the Combined Task Force (CTF) 153 in the Red Sea.[17]
On 2 October 2022, Sioux City arrived at her homport of Mayport after a five-month deployment, becoming the first LCS to operate in the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Northern Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf.[18]
On 14 August 2023, Sioux City was decommissioned at Naval Station Mayport.
Little Crappy Ships
The Navy needs two types of ships - submarines and aircraft carriers and I’m not sure about aircraft carriers.
What a waste of money.