Posted on 05/13/2022 8:03:41 AM PDT by dennisw
-Because their technology is already obsolete Navy will decommission its entire fleet of Freedom-class combat warships Four of the $3.2bn fleet set for scrap heap were commissioned in 2019 and 2020
Anti-submarine system 'did not work out technically', naval operations chief said Ships 'incredibly expensive and [lack] the capabilities we expected': Rep. Smith Added: 'They're not ready to do anything... When they are, they still break down'
USS St Louis, launched in August 2020, will serve just three years of 25-year life Scrappings will save $391 million as US Navy plans new shipbuilding program Crews at Naval Station Mayport, Florida will have to wait for new ships to arrive Chinese Navy is set to count 460 warships by 2030, becoming world's largest
The US Navy will scrap nine warships worth $3.2 billion - despite some being just three years old - because their technology is already obsolete.
Anti-submarine systems on the Freedom-class combat warships, four of which were commissioned in 2019 and 2020, 'did not work out technically', the Navy's operations chief said.
Admiral Michael Gilday asked Congress to sign off on the scrapping, which will save the Navy $391 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Take that, Putin!!!
Oh and they have a combining gear problem that limits them to 18 knots top speed.
Any idea who that admiral was?
Good read:
Elon....Where are you??
Their hulls crack and their engines have serious design flaws that cause frequent breakdowns. Why would the Coast Guard want them?
That sounds interesting. What is your source?
The Russian ships have been a considerable disappointment.
After seeing what missiles and drones carrying missiles have done to Russian ships (those that float), a real question needs to be answered:
Are all surface ships for any navy just floating targets and deadly for the sailors on those ships?
LCS was a sham from the get-go. The whole program should have been canceled years, if not decades, ago.
“They could sell them and make more money..............”
I doubt it.
Isn’t this the ships that had large amounts of aluminum in the structure.
If so, they have a huge history of fires and catastrophic failures.
Worse than having no ship. At least the maintenance ends.
$40 Billion to Ukraine...
Our US NAVY can’t get better boats.
We are on the slide here, and the Brandon administration can’t fix anything. Praying we get some Trump or DeSantis sanity soon. This is getting tragic.
The Navy was warned that the ships weren’t worth it before they were built.
China the largest Navy in the world.
$40 billion to the Ukraine...
We scrap ships under three years old.
Hey, we’re saving $380 million (whatever it was...)
Yeah but we spent tens of billions... (such a deal)
That's what I was thinking. There are probably lots of countries that would like to have those for shoreline defense and wouldn't need to track high end submarines in open seas.
What's the docking fees on one of those? What's the minimum number of people to sail it?
The cracking hull issue affects the Independence class LCS. This story is about the Freedom class LCS. It doesn't help that there were two simultaneous LCS programs, both of which failed.
The Freedom Class does have a problem combining the diesel and gas generator powerplants for full speed, but that is addressed in the article I posted a few posts above this one.
The Coast Guard doesn't need the high dash speed from the Gas Generator powerplant, and could remove them entirely, solving the combining gearbox issue.
The Coast Guard has done so in the past with another class of hand-me-down Navy ship that had powerplant combining issues. The rest of the Freedom Class would make an excellent Coast Guard cutter, and the Coast Guard is currently embarking on a mult-decade recapitalization of their fleet. Taking these ships from the Navy would save the taxpayers money, and would move up the timeline that the Coast Guard could retire their older cutters.
That’s our tax dollars not at work. Since these ships do not work, do we get our money back?
Their hulls crack and their engines have serious design flaws that cause frequent breakdowns. Why would the Coast Guard want them?
To keep our congressits happy with kickbacks.
The government boondoggle wouldn’t be as hard to believe if these worthless pieces of overpriced scrap iron had names like the USS Obama, USS O’Biden, USS Harris, USS Pelosi, and USS Schumer.
Have they tried repurposing them?
“Any idea who that admiral was?”
No idea.
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