Your LCS Callsign is "Grinch"

[kham]

H/T to CDR Sal

Lots of comments as you may expect; try and surf over the Lazarus LCS-cum gargling. I know I did

The cliff notes version is simple: these guys, were promised a 6 month deployment, home by Thanksgiving; then Christmas; now, April. Or May. But they not really sure.....

All this, THIS so the FLAG cocksucker in charge can play lets-pretend with this shitbox. And of course, the crew, gets it in the ass. Fucking SINGAPORE. That might be a nice spot for a vacation, but not when you on the other side of the planet and you have a family. At Christmas. The new guys cannot take control fast enough

[nachtjaeger]

Indefinitely extended deployments? You'd think we were at war.

Could the problem be that they don't trust Coronado to make it home without an engineering casualty? Keep her safely tied up dockside in Singapore. And no budget for transport to swap the crews by air.

H/T to CDR Sal

Lots of comments as you may expect; try and surf over the Lazarus LCS-cum gargling. I know I did

The cliff notes version is simple: these guys, were promised a 6 month deployment, home by Thanksgiving; then Christmas; now, April. Or May. But they not really sure.....

All this, THIS so the FLAG cocksucker in charge can play lets-pretend with this shitbox. And of course, the crew, gets it in the ass. Fucking SINGAPORE. That might be a nice spot for a vacation, but not when you on the other side of the planet and you have a family. At Christmas. The new guys cannot take control fast enough

[kham]

You are 'deployed' on a POS with minimal on-board quarters an amenities. And which is intended to be run like an aviation unit (comes from letting airplane retards design a ship....) This isn't a deployment aboard the Nimitz. And Singapore? Sounds awesome, huh? Except for trying to stay in touch with home. Sure, it's the 21st century, and comm options are way better. But you can bet your ass, these guys dont have individual high-speed internet available for skype....

[Mynock]

Crew requires more training......First page of the manual should read: "Warning: Do not attempt to immerse any part of the LCS system in water".

[kham]

That's funny
That, is what Sal said; basically, all the bullshit being spun, would melt the moment they put these things in and began displacing water with them There's an article I gotta dig up too on the DDG-1000 which details it's failings in excruciating detail. One thing I was not aware of there: the uber-deadly transformational! gun? Is incapable of engaging ship targets.... That is correct. It is only good for bombardment. And right now, it fails at THAT...
I making out my christmas booze list now....

[Mynock]

Forget the malfunctions, the bad design, the stupidity, etc. I just keep going back to the question "What is it for?" and getting no answer. It's really stupidly expensive, so it's not an economical way to chase pirates. It's virtually unarmored and has shit for guns, so to call it any type of "Combat" ship is hilarious. It's not stealth so you couldn't use it for sneaking around and maybe inserting SF or something.
Reassign all three of them to the artificial reef program. The long lasting aluminum will make a great fish house lol.

[kham]

You just explained in a paragraph what's wrong from day one
And the answer you would get is "But but but but.... TRANFORMATIONAL!! SPEED!! WATER-SKIING SPEED!!! EEEEEEEELEVENTYYY!!! BLEEEEEEAARRGGHH!!11!!!!..."

They never, ever, were rational about it. Which is why you get fucksticks like Lazarus trying to justify this shit.
When they started asking shit no sailor should have - being aviation types.... that should have been the TELL to just have an adult stop everything. Hold the FUCK on. But nooooo

[dlodoski]

Maybe next year, Santa will bring the navy a few of these -

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... navy-19020

Look like groovy ships to me.

[kham]

They have been building some lovely cutters for the Coast Guard, but the instant I saw it, before I was even near the middle of the page , I was thinking "Perry-class type" The only thing wrong with it, is it's the second verse, same as the first if you catch my drift. Now, it also has what is Garlic and Crosses to the vampires at NavSea and Surface Warfare Bubbas: FRIGATE. Speak that , and they lose all human connection to reality. We never should have done away with the Perrys en masse to begin with. But that's what happens when you believe your own bullshit in the echo chamber and 5-sided wind tunnel, coupled with no adults in charge, with a dash of moronic retards who think Treknology is REAL and should be a plan for building stuff.... Nice little platform, limited AA warfare capability, probably good for ASW, limited ASuW as well. Certainly light-years ahead of the LCS aluminum target ballons. Several foreign designs are also very good. The problem is, the NAVY and the Assorted Graft-seekers will demand anything be built in America. Great idea. Only problem is finding a design thats grounded in reality. This has ALL been plotted out before . Like, when SLICK was in office. Early. But, no one listened , which was pretty fucking stupid, since the guys suggesting it were all professionals, and in uniform, and publishing for Proceedings AND USNI. Today, most of those guys are retired, dead, or run Blogs in the hope anyone is listening.
Also, one problem with this design, and it was same with the Perrys -- they can't keep up with the Battle Group. Not at flank speed, anyways. And that was a problem.

[nachtjaeger]

Awesome! Now build them out of steel thick enough to stop a .50 cal, and you've got a warship.

Maybe next year, Santa will bring the navy a few of these -

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-bu ... navy-19020

Look like groovy ships to me.