Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)

[dtulsa]

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The ships were designed to perform single mission, and they’ll stick to that plan, Brown said. While he declined to offer specifics, it will likely involve crew training, partner operations, and fisheries enforcement, he said, though “that’s really up to the 7th Fleet commander.”

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They maybe able to do fishery prtectection type missions but that about it

 

[Jura The idiot]

They maybe able to do fishery prtectection type missions ...

... if able to sail under their own power

 

[anzha]

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Lockheed got the last LCS it seems.

 

[Jura The idiot]

Austal Further Improves its Frigate Design to Better Match Latest FFG(X) Requirements

16 Jan 2019

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now they didn't put the slant launchers in the water as Apr 10, 2017

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pathetic "solution" (for the reasons given inside

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plus, I add, because of nonsensical placement of AShMs so close to the waterline)

= improved game-changer

 

[anzha]

Austal Further Improves its Frigate Design to Better Match Latest FFG(X) Requirements

It looks like they shrank the helicopter pad. Or am I wrong? The large pad was one of the benefits of the Austal LCS. Perhaps the only one, tbh.

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

It’s stil pretty substantial.

 

[Jura The idiot]

It’s stil pretty substantial.

transformational

 

[anzha]

It’s stil pretty substantial.

Bigger! better! *grunt*grunt*

I wonder why they couldn't put the VLS cells in two units on the outer hulls.

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

Bigger! better! *grunt*grunt*

I wonder why they couldn't put the VLS cells in two units on the outer hulls.

Would likely need Jura’s beloved Mk57 VLS and would eat into outer spaces.

 

[anzha]

Would likely need Jura’s beloved Mk57 VLS and would eat into outer spaces.

The question is what is in the outer spaces now? Other than aliens.