Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)

Jura The idiot

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Nov 23, 2017
Jura said:
LOL I generally don't post about stuff below 100m but now I will:
Lockheed Martin gets $22m under Saudi Arabian littoral combat ship contract
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wondering what kind of activity it actually is (plus waiting for the Saudi Arabia to pay six bil for LCSs hahaha I know they'll able to do it)
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now noticed these in Twitter (
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Jura The idiot

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Friday at 9:03 PM
Jura said:
keep dreaming about some vaporware and in the meantime check this:

about two and a half years ago, inside the USNI News (note the end of September below)
May 16, 2015

... Program Executive Officer for LCS Rear Adm. Brian Antonio ...
Overall, though, he was optimistic about achieving IOC by the end of September.

“We’ve proven that the systems work,” he said.
“Will we have issues every now and then? Yes we will. Some of these systems have been in development a long time, it’s time to bring them together and do the end-to-end run and prove them out.”

today, inside
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quoting
Capt. Ted Zobel, the program manager for all three LCS mission modules. ...
... the
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(MCM) module will enter testing in 2020, reach Initial Operational Capability on Independence variants by late 2020 or early 2021, and IOC on Freedom variants by late ’21.
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and now enigmatic article
Changes to LCS mission equipment coming in FY19 budget
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appeared:
During the fiscal 2019 budget release, the U.S. Navy will unveil changes to the number of “mission modules” it will procure for Freedom- and Independence-class littoral combat ships, a program official said Thursday.

The three LCS mission modules contain a number of weapons, sensors and unmanned systems used for missions related to surface warfare, mine countermeasures and anti-submarine warfare. Any changes to the existing programs of record could spell out millions of dollars for the companies manufacturing those products.

The Navy’s LCS program office plans to buy 24 surface warfare, 24 anti-submarine warfare and 16 mine countermeasure modules, said Capt. Ted Zobel, the LCS mission module program manager.

“That’s going to change,” he told reporters during a briefing Thursday at the Surface Navy Association. “You’ll see those changes documented when the Navy submits the budget for fiscal year ‘19.”

Zobel declined to elaborate on which mission packages would grow or decrease in number. However, he explained that the changes to the modules were being driven by the Navy’s decision to purchase only 32 LCS instead of 55 and to semi-permanently install the mission equipment instead of the original vision of a swappable package.

“The numbers are kind of lagging the plan in the budget, so we were directed by Congress in ’17 to document that the new numbers align to the new plan,” he said.

Decreasing or increasing the number of mission packages could have major implications for a wide array of weapon systems. Some, like Lockheed Martin’s Hellfire missile (included in the surface warfare module), are widely used across the military. However, others — like Textron’s common unmanned surface vehicle and General Dynamics’ Knifefish underwater drone hunter — would be greatly impacted by the Navy’s decision.

The surface warfare package is scheduled to hit initial operational capability in fiscal 2019, followed by the anti-submarine warfare and mine countermeasures modules in fiscal 2020, Zobel said.
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Jura The idiot

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whatever I think (and in this thread I don't think I would need to repeat what I think of the LCS Project),

"Twenty-nine LCS ships have been awarded to date: 11 have been delivered to the Navy, 15 are in various stages of construction and three are in pre-production states."

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Jura said:
Apr 10, 2017
LOL Austal didn't listen to me, did it?
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As wih the Freedom variant above, keep the 30mm guns, keep the 24 Hellfires, and the shown new sensors, electronics and ASM missiles, and use this as the FF design and upgrads the LCS to this form...or to that of the freedom above.

My own desire would be to upgrade the LCS to this type of configuration, except use the Independence class to also perform the Counter Mine Measures mission as well.
 
Jura The idiot

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Feb 4, 2018
Jura said:
whatever I think (and in this thread I don't think I would need to repeat what I think of the LCS Project),

"Twenty-nine LCS ships have been awarded to date: 11 have been delivered to the Navy, 15 are in various stages of construction and three are in pre-production states."

according to
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now

"... Rear Adm. Brian Luther, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for budget and director of the fiscal management division on the chief of naval operations’ staff ...
“In building the ship acquisition plan, [the LCS portion of] small surface combatants has a requirement for 32 ships. The programmed ship in ‘19 is the 32nd [LCS] small combatant ship, so we feel it meets the requirement and it’s a sufficient bridge to get us to the FFG(X) program,” he said.
..."
etc.:
Navy to Grow Fleet by 46 Ships in 5 Years; Plans to Increase Deployed Hulls by 30 Percent
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Jura said:
as I've said before, I generally don't post about stuff below 100m; this is going to be one of exceptions:
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...: Navy awards design contracts for future frigate
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The Navy has awarded $15 million contracts to five companies for conceptual designs for the
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Huntington Ingalls, Lockheed Martin, Austal USA, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, and Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri have all been
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over the next 16 months before the Navy drops down to a single detailed design and construction contract.

All the contracts contain options that could grow the value to between $22 million and $23 million, according to the contract announcement. The work is expected to be complete by June, 2019.

The U.S. Navy intends to award the contract for the first FFG(X) in 2020. It will buy one in 2020 and one in 2021, followed by two each year after that, according to the Navy’s most recent 30-year shipbuilding plan. The U.S. Navy’s requirement is for 52 small-surface combatants, the bulk of which will be LCS.

Both Austal and Lockheed Martin are competing amped up versions of their littoral combat ships. Huntington Ingalls is offering a version of the Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter. Fincantieri is offering its FREMM design. General Dynamics is offering a patrnership with Spanish shipbuilding Navantia, for its F100 frigate.

The Navy is looking for builders to balance value and capabilities, according to a statement, the Naval Sea Systems Command.

“Throughout the accelerated acquisition process for FFG(X), the Navy will incentivize industry to balance cost and capability and achieve the best value solution for the American taxpayer,” the statement reads.
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