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2016-09-08 Science & Technology

LCS Troubles May Stem From Double Engine

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-09-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 an unusually small crew

Ummm...let's see, add Billion$ or bodies?
What to do, what to do.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-08 09:03|| 2016-09-08 09:03|| Front Page Top

#2 A ship designed NOT to survive or continue to operate once hit? I am ignorant of a great many things, greatest of which, all things seagoing. Someone must explain this to me.

Wiki link

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-08 09:08|| 2016-09-08 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 A complete cure ~~could require redesigning the engines~~ would be to scrap the LCS program in it's entirety, and get rid of the procurement command that foisted this POS onto our Navy. (There, fixed it for you.)

The Engineering divisions are not the problem. Everything else is.

Posted by GORT 2016-09-08 09:21|| 2016-09-08 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 It's easier to blame the sailors.

Posted by Pancho Glolusing7837 2016-09-08 11:00|| 2016-09-08 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 CODAG (combined diesel and gas turbine) and CODOG (combined diesel or gas turbine) have been around for a relatively long time.

The issue is the treating the LCS like it's an aircraft. Hence the high reliance on automation, on-shore maintenance, and small crews that rotate on and off the vessels (and thus don't learn the idiosyncrasies of their assigned ship). The issue is, to be basic, is that a seagoing vessel is not an aircraft.

Posted by Pappy 2016-09-08 11:29|| 2016-09-08 11:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks for that info Pappy.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-08 11:32|| 2016-09-08 11:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Another issue is the surface warfare union's tendency to "make every ship a dreadnought." The LCS concept is fine, if one is looking for a vessel for low intensity, low profile missions. The ship-driver mafia isn't too keen on that.

Posted by Pappy 2016-09-08 14:18|| 2016-09-08 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Show me a working Mission Package for the LCS. Just one.

Posted by magpie 2016-09-08 19:54|| 2016-09-08 19:54|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder if the island hopping sailors picked up by the Iranioids might have appreciated a LIT instead of their brown-water Bettys.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-09-08 21:57|| 2016-09-08 21:57|| Front Page Top

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