Navy Risks Blowback in Bid to Scrap $5 Billion of Troubled Ships

gCaptain ^ | May 11, 2022 | Tony Capaccio

[artichokegrower]

The US Navy wants to scrap nine of 16 Littoral Combat Ships built by Lockheed Martin Corp. well short of their projected service lives in order to save a projected $4.3 billion in upgrades and maintenance over coming years.

[artichokegrower]

Maybe they could sell them to Russia. I hear they need ships

[Magnum44]

LOL

[Vendome]

Sell em to China.

Then they won’t need to copy much more

[colorado tanker]

Cut the losses. They were a dumb idea to begin with.

[bourgain]

Give them to the Taliban.

[Billthedrill]

Except for the hull cracks and a propulsion system limiting the ship to the speed of a garbage scow, what’s not to like?

[Carl Vehse]

What admirals approved the building of those Edsels of the Navy?!?

[BenLurkin]

Give them to the Philipines.

[glorgau]

Scrap? Sounds like they’d be good for a strategic reserve.

[Paladin2]

“what’s not to like?”

The low melting temperature of Aluminum?

[OHPatriot]

The exact same ones that are currently on the payroll WORKING for Lockheed.

[Vendome]

GMTA

[FLT-bird]

The Little Crappy Ships were a failure from day one. They’re not big enough to be effective and the Navy hated them from the start.

[Mr. Lucky]

Were ‘t these supposed to be the ships to replace the Iowa Class?

[Srednik]

The Edsels of the USN.

[matthew fuller]

I’ll bet that you’ll find a six letter name that starts with Mc and ends in n.

[Fai Mao]

“Give them to the Philipines.”

That is not actually a bad idea

[DIRTYSECRET]

Philippines? Their antiquated Air Force is using the old bras of Imelda Marcos for sky caps.

[OldWarBaby]

These party boats couldn’t carry the bullets for the Iowas.

[Rural_Michigan]

You think??