Article

2007-11-02 Science & Technology

US Navys LCS Class Latest Procurement Casualty

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-02 17:18|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 builders complain that the Navy keeps making so many design changes while the ships are being built that they have little chance of delivering on spec on budget on time

Typical

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-11-02 17:29|| 2007-11-02 17:29|| Front Page Top

#2 LCS - Knox Friage meets the TFX in an expensive smokey bar and has a 1 nite stand

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-11-02 18:09|| 2007-11-02 18:09|| Front Page Top

#3 No surprise here - IMO, GLOBAL PROMPT STRIKE-GLOBAL OFFENSIVE/STRATEGIC STRIKE, Sea Basing/MOB, GMD, Arsenal Ships, Space-Lunar Planes and espec Armed UAV techs advances, etc. has put the USDOD in a state of spending + planning flux right now. No 9-11/Amer Hiroshimas inside the USA has occurred, USA is globally entrenching wid ease = little to no major resistance/challenge, and even peace and potens reunification appears to be breaking out on the Korean peninsula. THE DOD's-NAVY'S NEW STRATEGY EMPHASIZES "PEACEKEEPING", LOCAL POLICE ACTIONS, + HUMANITARIANISM vv 1000-flag/nation International Combined Task Forces. If this keeps up, the USDOD in LR may find it has [voluntarily?]gone back to turn-of-the-20th century when upper class elite families frowned heavily on their sons joining the armed services ["pig/dirty services"], or their daughters from marrying military men "out of their class"???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-02 19:57|| 2007-11-02 19:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I can believe in the new strategy's "HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS" becuz once Pacific "earth changes", etc events get into their stride, for one the USN will use to its heavy ships [e.g. carriers] to help relocate masses of people to new homelands. IFF OLIVER STONE, AEROSMITH, + TEXAS-SIZED ASTEROIDS, ....ETC. WEREN'T AWARE OF THE NEW STRATEGY'S HUMANITARIAN SCOPE, THEY SHOULD'VE
BEEN.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-02 20:02|| 2007-11-02 20:02|| Front Page Top

#5 The LCS was envisioned as a SLJS (Sh*tty Little Jobs Ship). Which is not necessarily a bad thing if you accept the idea that it's gonna be 'adequate' in whatever mission it's configured for. Unfortunately, like a camel it was designed by a committee. A three-legged camel with six humps and no nose.

Small ships have habitually gotten short-shrift from the surface community. Factor in an aviation-operation mentality and a sub-force procurement mindset for the LCS, and you have a disaster.

Posted by Pappy 2007-11-02 21:50|| 2007-11-02 21:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Can they build them in Johnstown, PA?

Posted by Brett 2007-11-02 22:34|| 2007-11-02 22:34|| Front Page Top

#7 that, and the LCS was kind of lacking in the self-defense department. A radar capable of illuminating airborne targets and a couple cells,
enough for sea-sparrow, would be a great help.

And as far as I could tell, in spite of all the weapons module space below the helicopter pad, I'm not sure you could put that on the ship.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-11-02 23:19|| 2007-11-02 23:19|| Front Page Top

23:57 Redneck Jim
23:50 JosephMendiola
23:44 JosephMendiola
23:43 Redneck Jim
23:42 Redneck Jim
23:34 JosephMendiola
23:25 Zenster
23:22 JosephMendiola
23:22 twobyfour
23:21 Redneck Jim
23:19 Abdominal Snowman
23:18 JosephMendiola
23:14 Rambler
23:13 GK
23:12 JosephMendiola
23:11 Zenster
23:11 Redneck Jim
23:10 JosephMendiola
23:07 JosephMendiola
23:05 twobyfour
23:03 Zenster
23:02 3dc
23:02 Redneck Jim
22:57 Redneck Jim