Why This Is The US Navy’s Most Controversial Warship

Actual, send it

I have dispatched a entire strike group to the Mediterranean including the largest carrier in the world 🌎 IF YOU DEFY THE AIRSPACE U WILL BE MET WITH DEADLINES, I AM vice admiral Labonte ahhh 34 year combat veteran and commander of the Navy AIM HIGH FLY NAVY

The LCS really wasn’t wanted.
Some of them just chug.
It will be a shame to be junked…

Can US LCS freedom class to my country Sri Lanka to fight protect our seas

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Move To Philippines 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

the problem is very very quite usual, newer technology on untested bed platform, a morale does exist of so called Murphy's law: if something not going to work, for sure not working.
..but many interest ( corporations) and bad made decisions of biggest Admirals makes this happen.

Скорейшего дна морского. К Нептуну.

drop them to the coast guard, and or to close allies instead of spending more money having them combat ready

And they just built another one! 😂😂😂

Independence Class is a bad design. Aluminum hulls cracked. Fire hazard.

Lot’s of corrupt contractors !!! Drive train. Cheap components.

I helped build LCS FREEDOM

These is replacement of cyclone ship these ship is better than cyclone ship has more mission capability any type of mission they want to do,, all new ship have problem just need to address that matter from the manufacture

Because it's stamped out a Reynolds aluminum wrap... its Junk...
Nothing on it works or is always breaking. All the anti-submarine warfare packages never work. Every package I've ever put on there is never worked. Millions of dollars of engineering personnel onboard with laptops can't figure it out... Simply junk.
Take it to a aluminum recycling center to try to get some money back.

Spending money fullishly

I feel like instead of scrapping the design the Navy should make some major updates and covert the LCS class ships into proper corvettes to march China’s corvette fleet.

Don't tell Joe, he'll send them to ukraine, for free.

WHAT???? WHO IS THE DIMWIT WHO DESIGNED A SHIP THAT WOULDN’T WORK?

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There is a reason U.S. taxpayers can,t hawe free healtcare 😂😂😂

Couldn't it be used for pirate patrols?

I HATED THESE SHIPS WHEN THEY CAME OUT!!! I thought 🤔 they were wimpier than an Oliver Perry Class Frigate! They were supposed to replace the Battleships, yeah right...my big butt, way too wimpy for that. Thanks.

For a Navy to be effective, you got to have multiple different platforms to be lethal in ship combat, plus, be tough enough to be blasted by continuous bombardment of shelling towards it, CAN IT FILL THESE ROLES OF COMBAT TOUGHNESS AND LETHALITY OF A BATTLESHIP, YES, TOUGH AS A WWII BATTLESHIP!!! Yes, every ship has to be battle Hardened to the Core!!! Bring back THE IOWA CLASS Or, DUST OFF THE U.S.S. TENNESSEE BATTLESHIP PLANS!!! That will get things done and kick major butt in the battlefield!!! Thanks 👍.

I trust CNBC about as far as I can throw them, not talking about the reporters.

I say bring back the Iowa and NY Class Battleships like The Battleship Texas. Take the technology from those other ships and integrate them into the Iowa and NY class ships. Bring back the 16” cordless hole punch!

Sell or donate it all, both designs, perfect Littoral Combat Ships, to & for, the Philippines! I highly recommend it, and it is practical for operation, within its' 7,641 islands & West Philippine Sea!!!

At the time of this article the lcs were not new. Day late and dollar short reporting. Plus incomppete reporting

Do they serve "Freedom Fries" on "Freedom" class vessels?!? (Seriously, who names these things!)

Worst case . . . give it to the Coast Guard?

These Littoral Combat Ships are perfect for island hopping in a war against China

Imagine if you filled that rear deck with VLS cells. All of a sudden, you'd have a small ship with a hell of a lot of firepower that could be outfitted any number of ways. You'd probably have to remove that CIWS from the roof and launch smaller helocopters from there but that would be a worthwhile tradeoff IMO.

Will the Navy mothball all the ships?

Late stage Roman Empire, version 2.0. The US Navy is a pale shadow of its former self, with no chance of victory fighting China anywhere west of Guam. Inferior numbers, inferior hardware, and low quality crews will result in kinetic military defeat if the US decides to try and relive the WWII experience in the Pacific. 🤣

Not watching this whole thing because everyone who knows anything about ships at this point knows the LCS is a complete failure. The propulsion systems especially. I came to add that after a recent trip to Maine and staying in Bath and touring the Bath Iron Works area and their exhibits at the MMM, Bath Iron Works, pretty much the builder of the LCS, has almost scrubbed the LCS from mention up there. LOL. That says a lot. Not that Bath Iron Works is really at fault, that would lie with the designers and engineers, but they certainly aren't proud of the role they played in it. Thankfully, they're staying busy enough just building their Flight IIAs and Flight III Arleigh Burke destroyer orders.

The answer to, "Can the USN find something to do with LCS?" is, "No."

If they don't want them they should transfer them to the coast guard for drug interdiction

Littoral is a waste of resources. There are other ways to engage that area, which is less resource intense and contributes to more advance warfare, such as drone technology. Littoral ships are under-gunned, based on antiquated combat thinking, and make wonderful targets for ever advancing drone technology.

Money in the trash, they could have gave every American and (illegal) a Million dollars 💵 and still have money left over!😢

Absolutely stupid. The Italians are not designers in the manner you want. I hope they prove me wrong, but I won't be afraid to tell you that I warned you.

The representative from Seattle has conflict of interest, in that LCS is built in 'bama, not Washington, and that's it, that's all. And how silly, there are dozens of islands around Seattle and the coast to Alaska where LCS is designed to operate.

!! Built by the same shipyards that screwed up lcs!!

NSM will save the remaining ships for sure

The answer is simple. The working conditions… they hurried and rushed people, if you don’t have time to do something right? How do you have time to fix it? Austal lost their ass. Rightfully so

Its shows who had the better lobbyist. In the past, if something had even a little chance of interfering with the National Airspace it won't be allowed to operate near an airport. I guess its more important for people to watch cat videos than an airliner landing in bad weather.

Bet they wish they had the Charles F Adams class still.

Who's bright idea of making it out of aluminum? Aluminum ships or armored vehicles have never worked well.

It's a wise decision -- to spent your money multiple times on the "wrong ships" so they can afford bigger yachts to impress chicks in the summer.