He told the House Armed Services Committee: ‘I refuse to put an additional dollar against a system that would not be able to track a high-end submarine in today’s environment.’
Committee chair Rep. Adam Smith said: ‘Regardless of how old they are, that’s a lot of money to be spent to get pretty close to nothing.
‘They’re incredibly expensive, and they don’t have the capabilities that we expected.
‘We can’t use them, number one because they’re not ready to do anything. Number two, when they are, they still break down.’
The nine $3.2bn anti-submarine warships set for the scrap heap
USS Fort Worth (LCS-3), Sept. 2012
USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), Nov. 2015
Detroit (LCS-7), Oct. 2016
Little Rock (LCS-9), Dec. 2017
Sioux City (LCS-11), Nov. 2018
Wichita (LCS-13), Jan. 2019
Billings (LCS-15), Aug. 2019
Indianapolis (LCS-17), Oct. 2019
St. Louis (LCS-19), Aug. 2020
The youngest littoral combat ship (LCS), the USS St. Louis, launched in August 2020.
It will serve just three of its 25-year planned service life before it is taken for scrap.
The touted LCS vessels, which were thought to be the ‘future’ of the US Navy, are among 24 warships to be decommissioned in 2023.
which will save the Navy $391 million.....................
It’s long past time for hangings.
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And yes the Russians are also building their navy at a rapid pace. It’s why they don’t really care about the losses in the Black Sea, they can significantly outproduce any losses caused by the Ukrainians.
Transfer them to the Coasties.
They would be just fine for maritime anti-drug coastal patrols in the Gulf and the Atlantic.
Within five years the Navy will come to the painful realization that their entire surface combatant fleet is obsolete. The silicon chip and other technological advances have made these ships death traps.
Why not just give them to Ukraine? They are a dumping ground for everyone’s old weapons systems.
And not one Pentagon warrior or contractor will have the slightest hit to their career over this.
This should go down in history as the worst military weapons system ever.
More money for “DEI” training. 😕
Take that, Putin!!!
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.
$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 our tax dollars not at work. Since these ships do not work, do we get our money back?
Have they tried repurposing them?
And CDR Salamander is Nostradamus once again.
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