Another strange phenomenon of the industrial military complex telling the service's what it needs instead of the armed services telling the armed services what it needs and wants
Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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If LCS is future the we are screwed might as well make a bunch of new ports for them to dock in awaiting maintenance and repairs
Jura The idiot
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oh in fact the USN has been lauding LCS game-changers ... so they have them! transformational, revolutionary, concurrently-built, ...
Jura The idiot
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"maintenance and repairs" ... LOL I think it's called UPGRADES by the Pentagon
ENHANCEMENTS is also a great word
And always broke down the maintenance contractors are getting rich off them
Jura The idiot
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Raytheon Awarded LCS Over-the-Horizon Anti-Surface Weapon Contract; Deal Could be Worth $848M
credit goes to 'dtulsa' who has been predicting this for a long time (and sent me the link through Facebook tonight
I'm unimpressed though: "... USNI News understands the Thursday award buys about a dozen missiles"
credit goes to 'dtulsa' who has been predicting this for a long time (and sent me the link through Facebook tonight
I'm unimpressed though: "... USNI News understands the Thursday award buys about a dozen missiles"
That gives enough for one LCS plus a few spares should be all that' needed though because one is all that can be deployed while the rest are in port broke down awaiting repairsRaytheon Awarded LCS Over-the-Horizon Anti-Surface Weapon Contract; Deal Could be Worth $848M
credit goes to 'dtulsa' who has been predicting this for a long time (and sent me the link through Facebook tonight
I'm unimpressed though: "... USNI News understands the Thursday award buys about a dozen missiles"
As it stands now we are looking at 64 missiles total but number is going to climb rapidly around 2020 to 2023 from what I'm reading now they looking at JSM seriously too a derivative of NSM with dual land/ship attack capability roughly the same range and weight class although JSM flies up to 350 kilometers when air launched impressive for sure
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Well at least the LCS now has a proper anti ship missile instead of the peashooter of a Hellfire................
And the USN is still funding for the production of 2 completely different ship designs that supposedly fulfill the same set of jobs. Why am I not surprised ?
And the USN is still funding for the production of 2 completely different ship designs that supposedly fulfill the same set of jobs. Why am I not surprised ?
Jura The idiot
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in fact TheDrive says
"The accompanying budget outlay sees the service purchasing 12 more in each of the next three fiscal years and then 20 additional missiles in fiscal year 2023, for a grand total of 64 weapons by that point."
It's Official, The Navy's Next Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Will Be The Naval Strike Missile
May 31, 2018