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.
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There is a guy on Twitter, HI Sutton Covert Shores
He says the Makarov is ok as of a few days ago
Every time I read about the Littorals, they made me think of the Chevy Vega. Guess I was right. They are a perfect example of how out of control Flag Officers are.
Reading this I had a wave of nauseousness come over me realizing the gross incompetence of our modern day military leaders.What is going on????
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“Every time I read about the Littorals, they made me think of the Chevy Vega”
That’s the perfect analogy. A car designed by men who were not designers and then handed off to someone to execute who had not only no sense of ownership, but distain for the design. It is the only car in Detroit’s history that broke in half on the test track. Don’t tell me the people who assembled it didn’t know that would happen. Malicious obedience if there ever was.
Sub Brief (The cost and why they’re being mothballed.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhRvyKqJ0I&t=761s
Only if you assume that every claim by the Russians & Chinese is truthful, and that we have nothing in the works to counter them.
The US navy is heading towards smaller, more numerous "distributed" weapons platforms, such as the new Constellation class frigates, DDX destroyers and unmanned escorts.
Exactly right.
“Scrappings will save $391 million as US Navy plans new shipbuilding program...”
Not saving the Navy anything; just more of our hard-earned tax money they won’t freely spend. Maybe.
They’ll make good reefs, after they break down in the Black Sea.
I’m wondering what “breaks” on them.
Obsolete? How about "it never worked to Navy specifications?"
Within five years the Navy will come to the painful realization that their entire surface combatant fleet is obsolete
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And the US Army will make a similarly painful realization about the host of soft squishy things, prone to failure around sharp pointy objects, and declare them obsolete also.
That statement has been true of every warship ever built at any time in history.
What matters is, whose tech is little better plus whose training, motivation & leadership is A LOT better.
They’d make good reefs for any body of water...
Have they tried repurposing them?
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The plant watering bill would have been enormous.
Program lead times are so long that the officers that initiated and acted as program managers are often retired before the systems get fielded. They're often working with some of the same companies who built the white elephants.
Yep as soon as they get modern chips to make the electronics work ...
The coasties couldn’t afford to operate them. The transmissions that integrate the cruising diesels with the high-speed gas turbines, basically don’t work. To fix them, the Navy would have to cut the hulls open. Cheaper to build new ships with the improved transmissions.
And that's because drug-runner boats are well known for being especially slow & cumbersome -- easy to catch, right?
And besides, who wants to stop drug runners anyway?
</sarcasm>
Why waste the. Virtue signal and send them off to Ukraine!
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