USNI News
The Navy will decommission the service’s first two Littoral Combat Ships later this year, USNI News has learned.
USS Independence (LCS-2) will decommission on July 31, Navy spokeswoman Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman confirmed to USNI News. Meanwhile, USS Freedom (LCS-1) will leave the active fleet on Sept. 30, according to a decommissioning memo reviewed by USNI News.
Both ships will join the reserve fleet upon their decommissioning, a Navy official confirmed to USNI News. More
The USS Independence was suppose to cost $220 million to but went 220% over budget to cost $704 million to be commissioned in 2010. It was suppose to have a service life of 25 year but managed only 11. The USS Freedom ended up costing $670 million to commission in 2008, with a service life of 13 years instead of the projected 25.
Did the Navy ever really want these ships in the first place? – Dr. Tar
Water skiing!
A pineapple for their assholes!
Whenever taxpayer dollars are involved—the sky is the limit.
The problem; There are not enough, (if any), shysters going to PRISON.
The solution; Is obvious.
They did exactly what they were designed to do. Move money to the defense contractors that built them.
We export weapons and war. We are the top vendor on the planet of both. Don’t expect this to change, the money is too good for too many people to change this structure.
Not surprised. The navy throws more money away than I think any two services combined. G35 might be the only other contender for wasted money and failure to meet expectations.
F35. Dammit. Not g
Any number with a “B” behind it, I don’t even pay attention to any more. $28 trillion for the national debt, $4.8 trillion deficit for just this year alone, with several more trillion dollar Biden schemes in the works, our currency is pretty much worthless, or soon will be.
This is where the Neocons and the NeoLibs cash in.
Freedom and Independence? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?
In case it wasn’t blindingly obvious enough that the world as we know it is ending, the US Navy is decommissioning two combat ships, WITH THE EXACT SAME NAMES AS THE SPACE SHUTTLES IN “ARMAGEDDON”.
facts
https://t.me/littllemel/4703
And to think I spend two deployments (one to the mid east in ’76-77) on a thirty year old destroyer! The other to the North sea and rode out two typhoons on that trip.
Hardy men and barrier ships used to be.
Hardier ships that is. You know what living conditions were like on those tin cans from WWII?
They are going to be replaced by the USS Fabulous!
How is the USS Harvey Milk doing? Still pumping fluids into the other ships?
Targets for China . Poorly armed and armored. And they continue to build them .
I’m guessing the Navy never wanted them in the first place. Just like these pieces if shit:
Blame it on Sen. Patty Murray and Congressmen Norm Dicks and Brian Baird. All three exercised their political muscle to slip language into a 2002 spending bill to force the Navy to buy the boat from Edmonds shipbuilder Guardian Marine International.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/45-million-for-a-boat-that-nobody-wanted/
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The congressional trio say they were helping Guardian Marine because it had a great product. But each has also received generous campaign donations from the company’s three executives, its sole employees: $14,277 to Baird, $15,000 to Murray, and $16,750 to Dicks.
The Navy built a couple of coastal use only clunkers. Totally unable to mount rail-guns, or high energy lasers, and little if any ASW capability.
The job I do includes maintenance for the LCS vessels, so I have some inside knowledge of the subject.
To answer Dr. Tar’s question; inside the Pentagon LCS stands for Little Crappy Ships. So that should give you an idea of whether they were really desired by the Navy or not.
The main goal was to get a few of them up and running in the US Navy and then start selling a crap-ton of them to our allies for their Navies instead, but the program kept running into complications. Don’t think any allied ,ilitary is interested in them anymore.
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”
(Dirksen)
It’s a pretty good scam! If you can get in on it.
izlamo delenda est …
I’m waiting for the USS George Floyd to be commissioned and ultimately christened with a 40 oz. bottle of Olde English by Patrice Cullors
I once saw an Independence class LCS out in the Gulf of ‘Merica on seatrials. It must have sailed from Austal Marine at the port of Mobile cuz we were due south of Ft Morgan about 45nm.
The seas were angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to return soup at a deli!