A MH-60S Sea Hawk from the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) conducts a vertical replenishment with the U.S. Coast Guard medium endurance cutter USCGC Campbell (WMEC 909)LCS Alternative Weekly -- New Wars
Reinventing the Wheel on LCS
She was supposed to introduce a new era of war at sea to the Navy. The LCS proposals that began at the dawn of the century envisioned a modular, flexible, speedy, low cost warship to return the fleet to the shallow waters where increasingly the Big Warships were being threatened by mines, stealthy diesel subs, and especially cruise missiles. As the decade proceeded other useful roles were envisioned, as the old frigates and Patrol Craft gained renewed importance in the fight to prevent terrorist arms smuggling on the high seas, drug smuggling, and as the age-old threat of piracy returned to the forefront of the headlines.
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