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Pound for pound, the WW2 PT Boat, at 50 tons, was the most heavily armed warship in the world at the time. The 1945 PT-596 carried the following armament: 1) four .50 machine guns; 2) one M9 37mm auto cannon; 3) one 20mm Oerlikon gun; 4) one 40mm Bofors gun; 5) two Mk 50 5-inch bombardment rocket launchers; 6) four Mk 13 torpedoes; 7) two Mk 6 depth charges.

Compare this to the “well armed” LCS of 4,000+ tons: 1) one Mk 110 57mm Bofors gun; 2) two 30mm Mk 46 Mod 1 guns; 3)one Mk 49 Mod 0 RIM-116 RAM launcher (21 rounds) or SeaRAM (11 rounds); 4) six .50 machine guns; 5) no AGM-114L Hellfire missiles fitted yet, on a ship as big as a WW2 Gearing class destroyer? THIS is survivable? All I see is a fat, juicy, hapless missile magnet.