Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Brumby...I did a little editing on Lockmart's MMSC vessels.
The middle one in their brochure/flyer is likely to be the hull form for the Saudis...but it will be upgraded with the VLS and the 76mm gun of the larger vessel.
Here's an idea of what it will look like. The VLS may be oriented differently.
The middle one in their brochure/flyer is likely to be the hull form for the Saudis...but it will be upgraded with the VLS and the 76mm gun of the larger vessel.
Here's an idea of what it will look like. The VLS may be oriented differently.
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Impressive that's what we need tooBrumby...I did a little editing on Lockmart's MMSC vessels.
The middle one in their brochure/flyer is likely to be the hull form for the Saudis...but it will be upgraded with the VLS and the 76mm gun of the larger vessel.
Here's an idea of what it will look like. The VLS may be oriented differently.
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Yes...a good all around frigate.
I see a US version armed as follows:
01 x 76mm gun
16 x MK41 VLS with:
- 8 x ASM (either LRASM or NSM)
- 32 ESSM
01 x SeaRAM with 11 missiles
04 x .50 cal MG
02 x 3 Torpedos
Hanger for 1 x MH-60R and 1 x FireScout
...and of course the sensors to match.
if they can get these vessels for $750-850 million, the US would be crazy not to now that they will be being built for Saudi in any case. Just build them to US Navy speccs, with those type of weapons and whatever sensor changes necessary...and keep building them when the Saudi vessels are complete.
Twenty of these FFGs (forget the FF moniker) would be nice.
The current admin would not do this in any case IMHJO...but they will be out of office before it happens anyway. The next admin could do this.
We can only hope and pray they will.
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I second that notion and use the other's for minesweeping humanitarian show the flag and other tasks that we currently use destroyers and cruisers for I might reenlist if that happened
Brumby
Major
I think the prospect for this happening is really exciting. I did a quick check on the FF program timing to determine whether it might sit well with the Saudi acquisition. As is, by next May the Navy is meant to provide the secretary of defence with an acquisition strategy to support design and procurement of the FF for production no later than fiscal year 2019. There appears to be a window to make it happen. I am assuming the Saudi variant doesn't require too long a development window given that it has been pitched to the Saudi for some time and probably also to the USN in the SSC study. Given the base line cost for a Flight 0 is $590 million and a Mk41 is approx. $93 million, your targeted cost of up to $850 million may be doable.
That would almost to good to be true
Jura The idiot
General
LOL Jeff by that Proverb I meant the usual dates like
Ordered
Keel Laid
Commissioned
back to USN FF ... now I noticed this:
it comes from an older post by Bernard:
Has anybody heard anything related since then?
Not really just a competition for the over the horizon missile to held in 2016-2017 time frame
Brumby
Major
In terms of sequencing, the configuration of the FF's have to be bedded down and then where possible to be incorporated to the transitory batch of 8 if timing still allows. Retrofitting to the initial 24 units I guess is dependent on how costly and difficult it is to do so. Since the FF's are not bedded down, nothing is happening.