To: bill1952
"Uh, what are we going to do with a fleet of coastal ships?"
Their survivability will be better than that of a large ship that costs much more than many of them. A few months ago, an uninvited Chinese submarine surfaced next to one of our carriers during a naval exercise, although that's not the worst threat that the LCSs would be good to counter.
54 posted on
05/07/2008 10:52:47 PM PDT by
familyop
(cbt. engr. (cbt), '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote)
To: familyop
They are still coastal ships, right?
They aren’t considering attaching these pups to and steaming with a carrier task force are they?
If so, then why are they designated as littoral?
Can’t have it both ways.
72 posted on
05/08/2008 9:33:05 AM PDT by
bill1952
(I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
To: familyop
“A few months ago, an uninvited Chinese submarine surfaced next to one of our carriers during a naval exercise, “
Better than 50/50 that we knew it was there and let it surface rather than reveal we had been tracking it all along.
84 posted on
05/08/2008 10:30:51 AM PDT by
Rebelbase
(Carbon is the fifth most abundant element on the planet.)
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