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2016-01-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

New U.S Navy Ship Struggles in Test to Fend Off Attacking Boats

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Posted by gorb 2016-01-30 01:56|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 ...If you want to see just how bad the LCS is, check out a superb PC simulator called COMMAND: MODERN AIR & NAVAL OPERATIONS. It's detailed enough that you can get a very realistic view of how modern weapon systems work, and has been used by a couple of writers to show how a naval clash between us and the PRC might go.

Give ya a hint: the LCS will get its a$$ handed to it in anything resembling modern naval combat. It has NO missiles (might in a few years...IF the money's there and they can actually be integrated into the kludge of systems on the damn thing), its main gun is outranged by just about anything else it might come up against, and it's ability to take any kind of damage is almost nonexistent -a Flower-class corvette from WWII is more heavily armed and far more lethal than one of these billion-dollar tin cans. The bottom line is that it is bad enough that we might either have to keep the LCS's close to home in a future wartime, or consider them lost as soon as they enter an operations area.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-01-30 08:20|| 2016-01-30 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, but how good are the coffee machines?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-01-30 10:09|| 2016-01-30 10:09|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2016-01-30 10:25|| 2016-01-30 10:25|| Front Page Top

#4 At this point, what does it matter? When the USN (and I assume that's per the CNO and CIC) will not shoot down a Iranian drone that directly overflies a USN vessel?

You don't have to be defeated if you simply give up.

Posted by GORT 2016-01-30 10:29|| 2016-01-30 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Latest LCS, USS Sioux City, is being launched today

Posted by Frank G 2016-01-30 11:57|| 2016-01-30 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Strikes me as a lot of money to spend on a coast guard cutter ....

No offense to the USCG intended.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-01-30 12:18|| 2016-01-30 12:18|| Front Page Top

#7 I don't think I'm entirely wrong to think of the LCS as a heavy-duty coast guard cutter.

Problem is that we're tasking the LCS do things it wasn't designed to do. Having it serve in the Pacific, with 6,000 miles plus just to get somewhere, makes no sense. It can't serve as a long-range ship -- there's a reason the 'L' stands for 'littoral'.

The Navy is building 9,000 ton 'destroyers', or what used to be called light cruisers. Fine if that's what the Navy needs. But the Navy also needs a 5,000 ton ship that can sail from Pearl to Singapore and fight along the way. Especially as we're retiring all the frigates due to age, we need ships that can do what frigates have done.

The LCS isn't a frigate, and we can't use it as one.

Posted by Steve White 2016-01-30 12:24|| 2016-01-30 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Basically what it is, is a floating F-18. Which, in a way, is an insult to the F-18.

Posted by Pappy 2016-01-30 19:00|| 2016-01-30 19:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Looks like an aluminum Purple Heart box.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-01-30 23:16|| 2016-01-30 23:16|| Front Page Top

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