Posted on 08/16/2023 6:22:39 AM PDT by artichokegrower
showing more weakness to the world
“Sioux City becomes the fourth LCS to be decommissioned, following the lead Freedom-class ship, Freedom (LCS-1), and the first two Independence-class ships, Independence (LCS-2) and Coronado (LCS-4).
The U.S. Navy plans to scrap nine of a total 16 Freedom-class LCS well short of their planned service lives in order to save a projected $4.3 billion in upgrades and maintenance.”
the real problem is its name. you know how certain people hate to use the name of any native American tribe to name something so anything and everything that “denigrates” them must be renamed or eliminated.
At only $5 billion I guess we taxpayers should feel like we got a break considering the $85+ billion loss that Biden Inc. cost us in Afghanistan.
Or the Norks.....................
The general debacle of the LCS series can be further read here:
And here i am struggling to pay my taxes. I swear to god, i don’t know how much i can take how bad we are being taken advantage of. They just don’t give a FU** how bad they are screwing the hell out of us taxpayers. If i didn’t have family responsibilities i would resign my american citizenship and get the F out of here.
This is nothing new. It’s always been like this, whether Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines.
In WWII, the torpedoes wouldn’t explode. We lost a lot of sailors due to that.
Watch the movie Oppenheimer. The guy Robert Downey Jr plays, Lew Strauss, was instrumental in getting the Navy to accept and fix this issue.
I’ve had blow up pool floats which have lasted longer….
I’ll take it.
Ironic that the natives are battling to restore the name “ Redskins” to football.
Someone took a financial hit, eh
Will it be FOR SALE on www.ustreasury.gov in a few weeks?
Test ship? Are there any other ships in that class?
They should donate it to Ukraine in lieu of an equivalent amount of actual money.
I can’t imagine any other reason they won’t put it into service, even if it means passing it onto the coast guard.
Hummm. This has me thinking that perhaps I should decommission my 12 year old car.
Probably having trouble getting the unisex bathrooms working correctly. ;-)
Looks like they could remodel them to use in another task. May not be perfect but still workable.
In 2002, the Navy initiated a program to develop the first of a fleet of littoral combat ships.[11] The Navy initially ordered two monohull ships from Lockheed Martin, which became known as the Freedom-class littoral combat ships after the first ship of the class, USS Freedom.[11][12] Odd-numbered littoral combat ships are built using the Freedom-class monohull design, while even-numbered ships are based on a competing design, the trimaran hull Independence-class littoral combat ship from General Dynamics.[11] The initial order of littoral combat ships involved a total of four ships, including two of the Freedom-class design.[11] Sioux City is the sixth Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be built.
Sioux City includes additional stability improvements over the original Freedom design; the stern transom was lengthened and buoyancy tanks were added to the stern to increase weight service and enhance stability.[13] The ship will also feature automated sensors to allow “conditions-based maintenance” and reduce crew overwork and fatigue issues that Freedom had on her first deployment.
In May 2022, Sioux City was assigned to the Sixth Fleet, while she was equipped with a surface warfare module. In late May, Sioux City was re-assigned to the Fifth Fleet and assigned to the Combined Task Force (CTF) 153 in the Red Sea.[17]
On 2 October 2022, Sioux City arrived at her homport of Mayport after a five-month deployment, becoming the first LCS to operate in the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Northern Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, and Persian Gulf.[18]
On 14 August 2023, Sioux City was decommissioned at Naval Station Mayport.
Little Crappy Ships
The Navy needs two types of ships - submarines and aircraft carriers and I’m not sure about aircraft carriers.
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