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2016-10-07 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Future San Diego warship hits tug, starts to leak

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Posted by Frank G 2016-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Coke cans with a two stroke engine.

Posted by newc 2016-10-07 00:53|| 2016-10-07 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 But the crew is gender and sexual orientation balanced?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-10-07 05:01|| 2016-10-07 05:01|| Front Page Top

#3 ...and cosmopolitian

Posted by Skidmark 2016-10-07 07:06|| 2016-10-07 07:06|| Front Page Top

#4 aluminum hull

Those burned brightly in the Falklands. Which what I recall, was a real world test of the littoral environment they speak of.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-10-07 07:54|| 2016-10-07 07:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Time to invest in aluminum foil companies. They are going to sell a lot of patching material.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-10-07 08:28|| 2016-10-07 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Building expensive Purple Heart boxes.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-10-07 08:49|| 2016-10-07 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Just a little VID for AP.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-07 09:43|| 2016-10-07 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Either the tug is the most armored thing evah, or the hull of the littoral ship is fragile as fuck.

I'm going with AP's train of thought.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-10-07 10:47|| 2016-10-07 10:47|| Front Page Top

#9 They promised me flying cars, lunar colonies, and a cost/combat effective LCS by now! And fusion power, come to think of it...

Posted by magpie 2016-10-07 12:25|| 2016-10-07 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 cdrsalamander.blogspot.com has been all over this for years. Today he describes the performance of a Fletcher-class (USS Heerman) at the battle off Samar, including gun duels with Japanese heavy cruisers and BB's. Meanwhile, at Mayport, a tugboat gets to paint the silhouette of an LCS on its deck housing.

Posted by Matt 2016-10-07 13:46|| 2016-10-07 13:46|| Front Page Top

#11 So how many LCS are down now? 5?

Posted by newc 2016-10-07 13:49|| 2016-10-07 13:49|| Front Page Top

#12 newc, I think the current count is that 6 of 7 are down for repairs, eight years into the program. Which is fine unless we have to, like, go to war or something.

Posted by Matt 2016-10-07 14:36|| 2016-10-07 14:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Lament of "investors" (a summary):
"O Lord, put asunder our bummery!
To her crew, sad adieus,
But we're happy to lose
What we've sunk in this curséd Montgomery."

Posted by Angaiger Spinert5177 2016-10-07 15:24|| 2016-10-07 15:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Now y'all remember, these were 're-certified' as technology demonstration platforms, not real boats.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-10-07 16:30|| 2016-10-07 16:30|| Front Page Top

#15 I would buy that Skid. After all, my aluminum "boat" canoe wouldn't start leaking after banging into another boat.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-10-07 17:40|| 2016-10-07 17:40|| Front Page Top

#16 And only if the "technology demonstrator" was how to not fucking do it.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-10-07 17:41|| 2016-10-07 17:41|| Front Page Top

#17 If JB Weld sticks to aluminum, I don't see what's the problem.

Posted by SteveS 2016-10-07 17:49|| 2016-10-07 17:49|| Front Page Top

#18 rephrasing: "Fire on the Water, Smoke in the sky, war on the cheap will sink you by and by."

Posted by Jeasing Creque5352 2016-10-07 18:58|| 2016-10-07 18:58|| Front Page Top

#19 Jeffersonian gunboat redux, not then, not now.
If you want numbers of cheap and go fast the Elco 80 subbing Harpoons for torpedoes, minimally crewed, 11-12 and ready to go go in six months, assuming we can find some Packard engine blocks, would be better.

Posted by Shipman 2016-10-07 19:54|| 2016-10-07 19:54|| Front Page Top

#20 "newc, I think the current count is that 6 of 7 are down for repairs, eight years into the program. Which is fine unless we have to, like, go to war or something."

But is that not half of our LCS Fleet?
A 50% Deadline Report?

Posted by newc 2016-10-07 21:52|| 2016-10-07 21:52|| Front Page Top

#21 Thanks for the vid besoeker! Fun times in Saskatoon! Guess the pilot is saving for wheelfloats.......

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-10-07 22:49|| 2016-10-07 22:49|| Front Page Top

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