From Time Magazine's Battleland blog

 

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The Navy’s New Class of Warships: Big Bucks, Little Bang

By John Sayen | October 5, 2012

 

 

The Navy’s new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is not only staggeringly overpriced and chronically unreliable but - even if it were to work perfectly - cannot match the combat power of similar sized foreign warships costing only a fraction as much. Let’s take a deep dive and try to figure out why.

Good article. I think we can do this a fixed theme, as in the "F-35 Saga" case

From Time's Battleland blog

 

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Return Fire on the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship

By Rear Admiral John Kirby, USN | October 12, 2012

 

Last week on Time’s Battleland blog there was a piece by Mr. John Sayen entitled The Navy’s New Class of Warships: Big Bucks, Little Bang.

 

Obviously, Mr. Sayen is not a fan of the Littoral Combat Ship. And that’s OK. We welcome the debate and the discussion. We agree with him that it’s important for the Navy to be transparent and honest about how we spend taxpayer dollars. I just wish he had reached out to me before writing his piece, because so much of his criticism was rooted in old, misconstrued or simply bad information.

 

Let’s take them one at a time…

From Time's Battleland blog

 

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Its core self-defense suite is designed to defeat a surprise salvo of one or two anti-ship cruise missiles when the ship is operating independently, or leakers that get through fleet area and short-range air defenses when operating with naval task forces.

Really nothing impressive and very dangerous ....

Yeah, I would hardly describe one missile as a salvo.

I cant keep me out of quote this:

http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com.es/2012/12/lcs-if-numbers-dont-work-use-pictures.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/FAFV+(CDR+Salamander)