Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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No problem. It is a good question.
The realit5ies of the situation will probably rule against it happening.
But who knows? The US will have Mk 1010s on the fifty-six LCS/FFs, the six Legend Class Coast Guard Cutters.
This is basically an slightly improved version of the Mk 3 which is also on the five Swedish Visvy class corvettes, the four Brunai Darussalam class OFPs, on seven Mexican patrol vessels, planned on six Malaysian Gowind vessels, on four Finnish Hamina class patrol boats, and have been upgraded onto twelve Canadian Halifax frigates.
So, that is a total of 63 US vessels plus 36 other nation's vessels.
As I say, who knows? With basically 100 guns out there in service, maybe someone will develop and market an extended range round.
If you could make it an interchangeable load, and could sell/market something like 100 roiunds per gun, that would be 10,000 rounds.
The trouble they would have would be having to upgrade the sensors to take advantage of the range, and THAT may be the killer.
It would be expensive to do that, and for such a light round in any case, each nation would have to deem it to be worth the cost of the munitions, plus upgrading the sensors and targeting on each vessel to warrant it.
For that light of a round...that's why I say it is unlikely. The financials just probably would not work out.
Jura The idiot
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... and let me add what I think which is the stopping power of such ammo against a warship wouldn't be sufficient, if you didn't shoot a hail of them
sinceit would be as of ... 40 mm?
Got to admit that's one serious ride I am tending to think they will eventually figure all the bugs out and end up with rather serviceable series of ship's budget permitting
I agree.
It has been a long and painful ride getting to this point...but now there is light at the end of the tunnel.
wasn't that the case with the Perry's back when they were new I seem to remember there was a lot of criticism over it's armaments also
Well, it is OT, but the main issue with the Perry's back then was their single screw. Any hit there was likely to leave the vessel with no ability to move.
Also, having the 76mm gun amidships, instead of a 5" gun either forward or aft was felt to be an underarmament.
But with her single arm launcher at the time with 40 missiles, four of which were Harpoons, she was felt to be decent enough for her intended missions. She could provide some area AAW coverage, and the Harpoons gave her a decent ASuW punch.
And with the sonar and ability to carry two ASW helicopters, she was felt to be very well suited for her main ASW escort mission. She was also a good vessel for any show the fla missions.