I've said all we should is adapt the Saudi version of LCS only difference being nsm instead of harpoon ASHM
it looks like what you read might be correct as now:I am getting confused bout our 2 pet pick on programs does this new engine produce more thrust thereby increasing thrust to weight ratios which also would help in the dogfight dept. Also to my other pet program I read in yesterday's USNI document to Congress buried along about page 40 something there is No request for an over the horizon missile so what the world is going on
Yep I read that this morning doesn't mean that it will happen by a long shotpulling from F-35 Thread
Yesterday at 7:26 AM
it looks like what you read might be correct as now:
"But the unfunded list does include $31 million to develop an over-the-horizon, or OTH, capability for the LCS — an item left out of the original request ..."
is the quote from what I posted in
US Military News, Reports, Data, etc. 6 minutes ago
31 mil ... well it says a lot about what the LCS Project has becomeYep I read that this morning doesn't mean that it will happen by a long shot
According to this it's for LCS 3 and 5 wonder what's happening with 1,2 as Coronado is number 431 mil ... well it says a lot about what the LCS Project has become
And aren't 3 and 5 both Freedom class vesselsAccording to this it's for LCS 3 and 5 wonder what's happening with 1,2 as Coronado is number 4
reaching their half-live:... wonder what's happening with 1,2 ...
now I read
source:
mentions yet another issue of LCSs
"Another complication is that both the all-aluminum Independence and the steel-hulled Freedom-class LCS were designed to last only 25 years, rather than the 35 of a larger vessel. In the future, Moore said emphatically, “we should not design a ship with a planned service life of 25 years. It doesn’t make sense.”
(no, I didn't know)
that projects it's just ... unbelievable, unbelievable
... and now there's is not much to say as
...
"But the unfunded list does include $31 million to develop an over-the-horizon, or OTH, capability for the LCS — an item left out of the original request ..."
is the quote from what I posted in
US Military News, Reports, Data, etc. 6 minutes ago