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2008-05-05 Science & Technology

USS Independence, LCS 2 looks like Imperial Star Destroyer from Star Wars

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-05 11:50|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Sweet...

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-05 12:43|| 2008-05-05 12:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Cue "Imperial Attack" music.

Posted by Mike 2008-05-05 12:47|| 2008-05-05 12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 The opening at the tip of the bow appears to be for anchorage. What if it's really the "Planet Destroyer" Superlaser?

We can dream, can't we?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-05-05 13:39|| 2008-05-05 13:39|| Front Page Top

#4 That's no anchor port....

Its the Wave Motion Gun (youtube - about 2:00 minutes in)...

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-05-05 14:56|| 2008-05-05 14:56|| Front Page Top

#5 As far as littoral action goes, I still support the tried and true idea of having a lot of small, expendable vessels that use a larger littoral ship as a "mothership".

The boat equivalent to the Humvee. Modular boat sections that can be forward stored and quickly assembled, designed to carry only one or two systems and their ammo. With a crew of between half a dozen and a dozen men.

Think a PT-boat plus. Then send them out in swarms into the littoral area, to cover a lot more distance than the mothership could.

They can also act as a team. Say one or two are mounted with SAMs, another one is a UAV carrier, another can fire light artillery or mortars, a few for ASUB operations, etc.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-05-05 16:28|| 2008-05-05 16:28|| Front Page Top

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