Why Does the US Navy Hate its Littoral Combat Ships

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a fast, agile, mission-focused platform designed to operate in near-shore settings. The LCS is capable of supporting maritime security, sea control, and deterrence. Moreover, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a class of Small Surface Combatants armed with capabilities focused on defeating global challenges in the littorals. In addition, LCS is designed to provide joint force access in the littorals. Ships in this class can operate independently or in high-threat environments as part of a networked battle force that includes larger, multi-mission surface combatants.

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[charlesvaughan]

Another major problem is that the navy isn't qualified to maintain many of the ships systems. Instead private contractors must be flown across the world to perform maintenance duties that on any other ship would be done in house. This is because although the navy owns the ships and paid for the development of the technology the contractors retain the knowledge as their intellectual property. So navy personnel aren't allowed to know how the systems actually work. Also the ships were supposed to require less crew than normal. This also turned out to be false although we paid more upfront for this "feature" . So we paid more for the ships, more for the upkeep and more to man them. All of these problems were obvious from the start and anyone who helped push this program should be arrested as traitors and held accountable. The contractors and the navy personnel robbed the tax payers and they did it on purpose

[spacecraftcarrier]

Title should had instead been "Why Does the US Navy Hate its Little Crappy Ships"

[RATTLR]

Because they are breaking. Aluminum can't handle the load and twisting . And they aren't armed worth a damn .

[julianjeffbissette]

Those ships are a good idea but made with aluminum instead of steel and they are cracking up with stress fractures. Yes, the Navy has a crack problem with these.

[craig]

Littoral combat ships are for shallow water, perfect for the coast guard and that's who I would give it to!

[John-mupy]

I did foundation machining on the Independence LCS’s for 4.5 years. Drive trains, engines, gear boxes, thrusters, sea ram, gun mounts….etc. etc. The aluminum is so unstable that when using a surface mounted milling machine it can barely operate without vibration. It came as no surprise to me when cracks started becoming a problem after being used in the open seas. Engineers did not like or want to hear of the consistent machining issues and challenges. It truly a Little Crappy Ship.

[GodWentAFK]

I love when the hired narrators don't care enough to correct grammatic errors

[KondorDCS]

Overpriced? Inefficient? Incapable? Pick your poison.

[thomasfx]

These have been a albatross around the Navy’s neck. What a stupid idea! No CIWS, no 5” gun, no Aegis, no ASW module. What is this aluminum hunk of junk good for. Who’s idea was this?

[definitelyfrank]

The literal combat ships are literally useless.

[eleventy-seven]

Like the F35 designed to do everything but not well at all.

[bryanpelton]

When you’re talking about more than one dollar, it’s DOLLARS.

[Bohemian]

It would be a perfect choice for some smaller navies to defend their coasts with these. But then again these lcs would be too expensive for smaller navies.

[faris.Djunaidi]

Simple efficient cheap idea suddenly turned into useless money drain. Magic!

[christianjunhoffman]

Beautiful ships but kinda useless. What a waste of money

[Randallsixx]

If a shop can't defend itself properly, then it becomes a liability.

[anonymouse]

2:18 Hmm 🤔… “can’t defend itself from anti-ship missiles” 3 seconds later “armament includes Rolling Airframe Missiles…” Im confused now

[thomasfx]

The plural of ‘dollar’ is dollars. Maybe not so much AI next time.

[doggodango]

Why not ask the Australian guys that sold us on them? Im pretty sure they’re being sued or something similar

[christianjunhoffman]

If they only decided to upgrade those decommissioned Ticonderoga class warship that would have made more sense and maybe a bit time and cost saving