{"id":191074,"date":"2009-09-27T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/27\/us-navy-to-drop-one-lcs-design\/"},"modified":"2009-09-27T06:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T11:39:00","slug":"us-navy-to-drop-one-lcs-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/27\/us-navy-to-drop-one-lcs-design\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy to Drop One LCS Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img36.imageshack.us\/img36\/4697\/lcs1launch2thumb7168142.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img30.imageshack.us\/img30\/5686\/gdlcs6793728.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/005026.html\">This News<\/a> is not really a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The ships are very expensive, and making 2 different models is expensive.<\/p>\n<p>My guess would be that the trimaran LCS-2 is toast.  It&#8217;s more expensive, and Aluminum rather than steel, like the monohull LCS-1, which raises durability issues, even if it might be a bit more stingy with a gallon of gas, and has a much wider and more stable flight deck.<\/p>\n<p>They are both designed to perform multiple roles with modular mission packages (surface warfare, mine warfare, special ops insertion, etc.) that can swapped out as the situation demands, which is, I think, a losing proposition anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The modules create compromises which means that both ships are under-armed for their size.<\/p>\n<p>The Israelis have rejected the ship, at one point, Lockheed-Martin proposed a modified ship <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">without<\/span> the mission modules to get the bang for the buck that the Israelis wanted, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janes.com\/news\/defence\/jni\/jni090706_1_n.shtml\">Israelis rejected that, and are not looking at other designs<\/a>, most notably the MEKO A-100, which are smaller, lighter, and cheaper, for their needs, which among other things, do not require the relatively long range, or extremely high speeds (40kts +) of the LCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This News is not really a surprise. The ships are very expensive, and making 2 different models is expensive. My guess would be that the trimaran LCS-2 is toast. It&#8217;s more expensive, and Aluminum rather than steel, like the monohull LCS-1, which raises durability issues, even if it might be a bit more stingy with &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191074"}],"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=191074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}