“we will station several of our newest littoral combat ships”
Jesus,,are we out to intimidate the whole region? Those Littoral ships are packing a single 57mm gun each. Thats 2.25 inches of hot steel. And the USN is recommending the Griffon missile be added too! THAT beast launches a 13 pound warhead 3.5 miles. I hate to see us put that kind of raw raw firepower out there in China’s face.
And that LCS is even able to operate briefly out of sight of land.
This is just crazy power. In the past,, it would have only been entrusted to places like,,,, Ecuador.
An M1 tank has more firepower than this dog of a “warship”.
Unfortunately very, very, true.