{"id":194818,"date":"2008-08-17T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/17\/late-and-overbudget-lcs-no-1-underway\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T05:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T10:44:00","slug":"late-and-overbudget-lcs-no-1-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/17\/late-and-overbudget-lcs-no-1-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Late and Overbudget,  LCS No. 1 Underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the first first littoral combat ship got underway at the end of last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/004349.html\">more than a year behind schedule, and at twice the forecast cost<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ships, the size of a large corvette or small frigate, are intended to work in coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, the Israelis are considering the conventionally hulled LCS as the basis of a ship for <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">their<\/span> navy, but they are ditching the modular weapons system, because they feel that it leaves the ship too lightly armored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the first first littoral combat ship got underway at the end of last month, more than a year behind schedule, and at twice the forecast cost. The ships, the size of a large corvette or small frigate, are intended to work in coastal waters. Interestingly enough, the Israelis are considering the conventionally hulled LCS &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1161,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-naval","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194818"}],"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=194818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}