Little Crappy Ships In The News Again

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Thanks to Byron Skinner for "Little Crappy Ships".

Don't forget to read the comments at the end of linked thread.

It's time to put this POS out of bidness.







Is LCS Dying a Slow Death?
[br />There are procurement programs and there are “one of those programs” procurement programs. The Littoral Combat Ship seems in the running to be the latter. The ship has wrestled with more than its share of glitches and programmatic snags since the beginning — the most recent being the delay of the contractor downselect and the revelation that the mission modules weren’t working as advertised.

[HopeHoops]

1. Isn't that the one from McHale's Navy?

:shrug:

[Ian David]

2. I prefer the Clitoral ships. n/t

[leveymg]

3. Give it a new paint job, and it would make a real nice yacht for a multi-billionaire.

Would not want to be hit by an ASM or a 5" round in that thing. But, for waterskiing, wake surfing or pro tanning, perfect.