{"id":184165,"date":"2012-07-16T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/16\/cancel-the-littoral-combat-ship-now\/"},"modified":"2012-07-16T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T23:44:00","slug":"cancel-the-littoral-combat-ship-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/16\/cancel-the-littoral-combat-ship-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel the Littoral Combat Ship Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy conducted studies of LCS capabilities, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/article\/20120714\/DEFREG02\/307140001\">it ain&#8217;t pretty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s modular mission systems, which were supposed to allow the ship to be refitted in a couple of days in theater are &#8220;untenable&#8221;, because the logistics are more involved than previously forseen.<\/li>\n<li>The ship is intended to take on 21 day missions, but only carries 14 days of food.<\/li>\n<li>The crew is too small.<\/li>\n<li>It was intended to replace frigates, mine hunters, and patrol boats, but it is, &#8220;The new assessments conclude the ships are not equal to today\u2019s frigates or mine countermeasures ships, and they are too large to operate as patrol boats.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It has no effective defense against cruise missiles.<\/li>\n<li>It has no meaningful offensive capability now that the&nbsp; Non-Line of Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS) missile system has been canceled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, except for its high dash speed, it pretty much has failed <b>every<\/b> capability that was intended when it was conceived.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel it, and get some honest to got frigates and mine hunters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy conducted studies of LCS capabilities, and it ain&#8217;t pretty: It&#8217;s modular mission systems, which were supposed to allow the ship to be refitted in a couple of days in theater are &#8220;untenable&#8221;, because the logistics are more involved than previously forseen. The ship is intended to take on 21 day missions, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}