That's a nice looking vessel. Any Freepers serve on them?
Posted on 11/23/2024 3:59:40 PM PST by UB355
People take a tour of the USS Beloit (LCS 29), a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy, after the commissioning ceremony at Veterans Park on Saturday November 23, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wis.
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That’s a pretty big target….
Has a bandaid fix for the broken CODLAG system, still has the unresolved structural cracking problem, can’t get anywhere near the design speed.
It’ll be retired to the reserves if not scrapped in the next decade - assuming it doesn’t get given away to some other nation.
Won’t the aluminum burn pretty quickly?
Good for moving up the Hudson or into the Great Lakes….
How long until it gets mothballed. I think some of the LCS ships (or should we call them boats) were slated for mothballing before they were finished.
Anyone else would get fired for throwing good money after bad, an Admiral probably gets another ribbon.
My suggestion would be to make the Coast Guard take them. They might be able to get them in condition that they can actually use them. Something the navy appears to be incapable of.
I didn’t know the MIC was still making those things.
In the mid 1980s, I had the misfortune to live in Rockford, IL for about 3 years. Needing something to make fun of the people in Rockford said Beloit was the sound a turd made when it hit the wall.
Amusingly it’s the ‘conventional’ single-hull design that’s given the most problems by far, problems the parent design doesn’t have. The “radical” trimaran type has done far better, but it’s been far from trouble-free.
They are at least going to finish out the initial contract, but no more will be made for the US. Right now we have a shortage of hulls and some think that this crippled hull is still better than no hull at all.
Coast Guard doesn’t want them. The Freedom class is a *downgrade* from the National Security Cutter. There are also compromises in the original design caused by the Pentagon trying to make these things replacements for destroyers and the OHP frigates that mean they likely can’t really be fixed.
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That's a nice looking vessel. Any Freepers serve on them?
After commissioning, it will immediately placed into Mothballs on completion of it’s shakedown cruise.
I thought that they scrapped this class of ships because of their lack of firepower and inability to fight pelagic wars.
I thought the LCS program was scrapped?
“Won’t the aluminum burn pretty quickly?”
If munitions hits and it is that hot, it’s probably curtains anyway.
“Coast Guard doesn’t want them. The Freedom class is a *downgrade* from the National Security Cutter.”
The National Security cutter came about because of Coast Guard tried to increase the length of its 110’ Patrol boat fleet. Which was an abysmal design failure.
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