U.S. Navy Unveils New High-Tech Ship Called USS Freedom That Can Fight Pirates

The USS Freedom can go up against massive enemy fleets and is one of the fastest ships in the Navy to date.

From FOX News:

The United States Navy unveiled a new high-tech ship it says can chase down pirates off the coast of Somalia faster and more aggressively than previous vessels could.

The USS Freedom can go up against massive enemy fleets and is one of the fastest ships in the Navy to date, its commander said in a FOX News "America's Newsroom" exclusive.

"It's more than an evolutionary step forward, it's a revolutionary step forward," Cmdr. Michael Doran told FOX News on Tuesday. "It's highly automated and it's very fast. ... For a piracy mission, we can go out there and cover more water with fewer ships."

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My Comment: This is an expensive ship .... it better do what it has promised that it can do.

Exclusive Video: How the Littoral Combat Ship Will Fight Pirates

From War Is Boring:



Commander Don Gabrielson of USS Freedom discusses how his new high-speed, “modular” ship might fight pirates. He mentions that Freedom could use its wake to capsize pirates’ boats. Neat idea, but does he realize that many pirates can’t swim, and flipping their boats would kill them?

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Video Tour of USS Freedom

From War Is Boring:

She’s 3,000 tons and 100,000 horsepower of high-speed, high-tech mission-module fun — and the future of the U.S. Navy as it retools to combat pirates, seaborne insurgents and natural disasters. Accompany Operations Officer Tony Hyde on a tour of the USS Freedom, the very first Littoral Combat Ship, as she lays over in Quebec City en route to Virginia.