{"id":188002,"date":"2011-01-01T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/01\/u-s-navy-splits-the-baby-on-the-lcs-contract\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T03:07:00","slug":"u-s-navy-splits-the-baby-on-the-lcs-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/01\/u-s-navy-splits-the-baby-on-the-lcs-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy Splits the Baby on the LCS Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/awx\/2010\/12\/29\/awx_12_29_2010_p0-279717.xml&amp;headline=U.S.%20Navy%20Awards%20LCS%20Contracts%20to%20Lockheed%20and%20Austal&amp;channel=defense\">Lockheed-Martin&#8217;s conventional design and Austal&#8217;s Trimaran got contracts for 10 ships<\/a>, at $538 million, without mission modules, which means not much in the way of meaningful sensors or weapons.<\/p>\n<p>For a ship that weighs as much as a frigate, but is as lightly armed as a corvette, but has the advantage of being able to change tasks, by swapping out mission modules, going from anti-sub warfare, to anti-surface warfare, counter-min, ISR, etc. if it can find its way to suitably equipped port.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, &#8220;It&#8217;s a dessert topping <b>AND<\/b> a floor wax!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the idea sounds really stupid to me too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Lockheed-Martin&#8217;s conventional design and Austal&#8217;s Trimaran got contracts for 10 ships, at $538 million, without mission modules, which means not much in the way of meaningful sensors or weapons. For a ship that weighs as much as a frigate, but is as lightly armed as a corvette, but has the advantage of being able &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188002"}],"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=188002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}