So is this thing just a glorified minesweeper?
>>29275472
Litoral combat ship. Too wide to traverse most rivers in litoral operations, hull section of aluminum that disintegrates in sea water. Yeah its a pile of shit.
>>29275472
Sub hunting, mine sweeping, swarm popping and a box AShM launcher for distributed lethality.
>>29275560
Why does the Lockheed-Martin LCS look so normal in comparison?
>>29275472
>>29275546
Thankfully though the lead designer had a poster of a F-117 hanging up in his office, so at least the enemy won't be able to see this ship, right? Right?
>Minesweeper
The RMMV would actually have to work for it to do that
>>29275573
Because Austal's ships is based on this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC_Benchijigua_Express
>>29275586
Oh look, someone pretending to be retarded.
>>29275580
>Non flush doors and windows
>Antennas everywhere
>Radar traps all over mast
How about no
>>29275616
>Surface search
>Not even fully planed
At least the RMMV could CLO competently. The USN has just given up on that have they?
>>29275645
Forgot
>Only deployable up to SS6
Yep RIP minesweeping capability
>>29275645
Observe newfriends, this is called damage control.
>>29275655
>minesweeping above sea state six
fascinating
>>29275684
>Mine sweeping in 5 meter waves.
That's the MOUNTAIN DEW EXTREME method of getting rid of mines.
>>29275655
>minesweeping at SS7
wanna know how I know you don't know what the fuck you're talking about?
>>29275662
>Actually defending a system that can't even CLO
>>29275684
>>29275726
>CUSV =/= only Minesweeping
LCS shills are out in force tonight. But sadly I won't take your bait.
>>29275560
>Sub hunting
A helicopter and... nothing.
>AShM launcher
Two boxes with harpoons on a deck. Maybe, some day. Yep, pretty much a fucking $360 mil minesweeper.
>>29275836
nigger, they're only running LAMPS choppers in sea state 7 in absolute fucking emergency. what the bloody fuck makes you think a 39ft boat should be able to operate in those seas when a 10,000 ton destroyer can't keep the deck steady enough to operate a chopper with the bear trap? just fuck off.
>>29275836
>ISR or side-scan sonar in sea state 7
>from a fucking 39ft boat
Jesus wept.
>>29275472
Mine sweeper and rhib deployer. Also a helo platform and towed array sonar platform. It's mission is NOT to shoot boats bigger than it or to pop off SAMs. However everyone thinks that all a warship does.
>>29275836
[damage control intensifies]
>>29275850
Protip;
You hunt subs with helicopters, if you are close enough to hit it with ship launched torpedoes you are already the sub's prey.
>>29276030
>However everyone thinks that all a warship does.
They do not comprehend that the USN has 84 Ticos/Burkes, with more being built.
>>29276176
Protip: it's better to have both a helicopter and anti-torpedo/anti-sub torpedoes. Especially for a $360 fucking million ship.
its literally a combat ship
>>29276322
>Protip: it's better to have both a helicopter and anti-torpedo/anti-sub torpedoes.
Only if your anti sub setup is defensive in nature.
>>29276431
Are you like literally retarded? I said BOTH, imbecile.
>>29275472
Can apparently blow up an Iowa, and theoretically any other surface ship, cause you know, it isn't like the entire reason it was conceived was because the Coast Guard /didn't/ want a heavily armed vessel with the equivalent maintenance costs.
>>29276176
That's what ASROC is for.
Oh, wait, they left the most modular weapons system in the Navy (Mk41) off of the "modular" ship.
>>29276470
Are you? The LCS are not defensive sub hunters.
>>29276769
I hope you are not seriously implying ASROC is comparable to helicopters.
>>29275546
They are just a small cheap modular ship designed to take over the support roles.
>>29275546
Why is it going in rivers in litoral operations, and how fucking wide is it that it won't fit in fucking rivers?
>>29277358
Freedom class is only 57ft wide. He's being retarded.
>>29277358
>>29277452
m8 this river by my house is a hell of a lot smaller than 57 feet wide
How do they expect it to enter the river and go up waterfalls?
