Friday, December 12, 2014

The U.S. Navy's LCS Fleet To Be Upgraded

The Navy is phasing in littoral combat ships such as the USS Freedom to replace aging Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates, Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships and Osprey-class coastal mine hunters.
James R. Evans/U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy’s New Warship Is the U.S. Navy’s Old Warship … With More Weapons -- David Axe, War Is Boring

Littoral Combat Ship gets upgrades to become a frigate

Back in the 1990s, the U.S. Navy came up with a radical plan to replace its tried-and-true Perry-class frigates, at the time the sailing branch’s most numerous surface warship.

The idea was to build lots of copies of a cheap, fast, lightweight “Littoral Combat Ship” with plenty of empty space inside. These “modular” vessels would swap different weapons, sensors, helicopters and drones—all depending on the particular mission.

That plan has collapsed. And now we know how the Navy will fix it—by building tougher, more heavily armed versions of the same modular ships.

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More News On The U.S. Navy's Plan For The LCS Fleet

Up Gunned LCS Hulls Picked for Navy’s Next Small Surface Combatant -- USNI News
Split Decision on New US Navy Ship -- Defense News
Navy Reveals Expensive Upgrades For The Boondoggle Ship That Has Already Cost $34 Billion -- Business Insider/Military.com
Navy gets OK for toughened littoral ships -- UT San Diego
Pentagon Opts to Upgrade Current LCS Ship Design -- NYT
Pentagon opts to upgrade current LCS ship design -- Reuters
Hagel OKs Navy plan to modify troubled littoral combat ship fleet -- AP
The US Navy wants better armed, more protected LCS based surface combat ships -- Defense Update
Split Decision on New US Navy Ship -- Defense News
A closer look at the “Modified LCS” -- Intercepts/Defense News

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