Littoral Combat Ships (LCS)

transformational revolutionizing naval warfare game changing The littoral combat ship program again draws White House ire

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If LCS isn't the worst military programs ever it has to rank in the top10

Just hope the navy chooses one of the other designs for FFGX

I know it's just a dream but maybe just maybe FFGX ends up replacing LCS on a one to one basis therefore you end up with 0 LCS and 52 FFGX

dtulsa said:

If LCS isn't the worst military programs ever it has to rank in the top10

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Department of the Navy delivered at least one more very strong candidate in last two years

dtulsa said:

I know it's just a dream but maybe just maybe FFGX ends up replacing LCS on a one to one basis therefore you end up with 0 LCS and 52 FFGX

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oh man what may easily happen is
0 (zero) FFGX
and
52 (fifty-two) LCS

Newly reorganized littoral combat ship program faces its first big test in 2019

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sounds like there's time for the Pentagon to take the junk out the port (after decades of 'transforming the future battlefield')

dtulsa said:

If LCS isn't the worst military programs ever it has to rank in the top10

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Actually...no, it isn't.

We will end up with 24-28 LCS and 20+ FFGX.

But they will get the LCS inot a position to be functional for SAGs, escorts duties, ASW, and CMC.

It is going to taake time...and people like Trump and hopefully the people he is putting into the Navy will get the LCS uparmed and upgraded.

That has to happen...and based on the input I am getting from people I know inside...it will happen.

If they choose the Lockheed variant of the FFGX they will do fine. The UK (Tyep 26) and the Italian (FREMM) entries as welll...or the BIW/Spanish F-100 derivitive too.

Personally, I believe the Lockheed entry probably has the best chance because it is wholly US and will allow the shipyards doing the Lockheed LCS to switch over with the least amount of triuble for a US firm.

Anyhow, those ships are going to be built.

Lockheeds FFGX



This is what the LCS should have been from the get go.

The actual LCS upgrade will have the quad launchers, the Hellfire missiles, the Sea RAM, and upgrades to sensors and a few more places with more armor.

Bath-Spanish FFGX



Italian Fremm FFGX derivitive:



BAE Type 26 FFGX derivitive:

Jeff I don't know what you're talking about here:

Jeff Head said:

BAE Type 26 FFGX derivitive:

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there's no such thing among

now

BIG WINNERS: The compromise bill is a victory for both the Navy littoral combat ship and F-35 joint strike fighter programs. In both cases, House and Senate negotiations went for the high end of proposed purchases. The bill pays for three littoral combat ships despite the Navy’s request for just a single ship and Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer’s insistence that no more were needed. The three-ship buy is not unexpected because Shelby’s state of Alabama is home to the Austal USA shipyard that builds the Independence-variant LCS.

etc.:
LCS, F-35 big winners in compromise defense budget

September 14, 2018

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