US naval expansion article, page-15

I wonder if the "next-to-no combat capability" comes from the same wanker who sank the Bushmaster APC which was winning tender for supply to the US miliatry by shifting the goal posts when they relised there own was not going to win the contracts? Combat capability is from weapons systems more than the weapons platform. The report does mention this when it states "be better-armed than the existing designs." The ship is not the issue, It does what it is designed to do.


Blue water ships are much bigger and much more expensive. The true statement is "Sean Stackley, the Navy’s acquisitions chief, said in testimony to the committee that the Littoral Combat Ship “is of critical importance to the Navy.” He said it now has “a stable design and a mature production line” that’s allowed the service “to make significant progress in completing both ship and mission-package testing requirements.”

It sounds more like a politically inspired attack rather than a reasonable report. Then again The Pres elect Trump seemed similar to many so I may be way of track.