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1 posted on 09/10/2012 2:12:39 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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The crew is probably really looking forward to seeing the sun and blue sky. Not much for going out on deck, like a surface running sub.


2 posted on 09/10/2012 2:40:53 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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Waste of money on obsolete death traps.

We should nuke our enemies into oblivion or else leave them alone.
Why throw able-bodied young boys at our enemies as cannon fodder when we have the technology to wipe them off the map altogether?

10 nukes would have fixed Iraq and Afghanistan - but instead thousands of dead and maimed boys later, those conflicts still simmer on unabated and they are more fixated than ever on Islam.

Fighting with this junk is a total waste. Now that we have nuclear weapons and airborne delivery capabilities, what good is something like this?
This is sort of like a highly trained prize-fighter learning how to scratch or pull hair when they can deliver a knockout blow.


4 posted on 09/10/2012 2:53:51 AM PDT by Bon mots (When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...)
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Nice lines-very stealthy...looks like Onassis's Christina O with aluminum siding.

Serving as a plank sailor on the first of a new class of ship is a real career enhancer so it goes without saying, in Obama’s Navy, that the crew have political connections...

...in other words, a third of the crew will be women, a third homosexual and a third people of color.

5 posted on 09/10/2012 2:54:32 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Who needs Michelle? The MSM keep Obama satisfied.")
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using cutting-edge technology and switchable modules to reconfigure the high-speed vessel for different missions.

I was reading at one point that, in real life, the "switchable" modules, instead of being switchable in days would take weeks. Plus:

A key LCS failure identified by the OPNAV report, sources said, is its inability to effectively defend against anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs), a weapon carried by hundreds of small, fast-attack craft operated by virtually all potentially hostile navies.
The Navy tried for a multi-capability ship, and instead got something that can't do anything well, has low survivability if hit, and needs to be protected by "real" warships.
9 posted on 09/10/2012 3:46:41 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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The LCS design sacrificed everything for speed (and no one knows why). LCS-1 class is overweight since its aluminum construction was changed to steel and there's no reserve buoyancy. LCS-2 class is a trimaran and of aluminum construction that has good reserve buoyancy.

Both classes are under armed, crews are too small, and of doubtful use in a fight. To survive, they must never leave the battle group protective ‘bubble’. The long service FFG-7 class frigates are going away without replacement and the LCS is a ‘swoose’ design — half swan and half goose that cannot do either job well.

42 posted on 09/10/2012 12:08:21 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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