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2022-09-16 Home Front: WoT
Navy Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship USS Coronado After 8 Years in Fleet
[Times of San Diego] The Navy decommissioned the littoral combat ship USS Coronado on Wednesday in a cost-saving move affecting the earliest versions of service’s small warship class.

"Today we recognize the great contribution Coronado and its crew made in developing the operational concepts foundational to the current configuration and deployment of littoral combat ships," said Rear Adm. Wayne Baze, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3. "Thanks to Coronado, the future of LCS looks bright."
Word Salad of BS
The Coronado, the second trimaran-variant in the littoral class, was commissioned eight years ago in April 2014.

It’s the third littoral ship the Navy has decommissioned, and the service wants to deactivate another 10, primarily the East Coast-based monohull-variant, in a cost-saving move.

Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, has said the Navy would rather put funds toward the new Constellation-class frigates, which are larger and more capable warships, instead of upgrading older littoral ships.

If Congress approves the Navy’s decommissioning plan, then a total of 21 littoral combat ships would remain, most of them the trimaran-variant based in San Diego.

The littoral ships were designed as fast, agile platforms for conflicts in near-shore environments.
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-16 07:17|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 ...in a cost-saving move.

Maybe skipping the whole thing would have been an even greater cost-saving move. You think? That's the problem with group think and welfare for Senators and their states.

Maybe should have looked around and checked what other nations have come up with that filled 80% of your mission needs, then found a validated builder who had proven they could actually build one? BTW, that what naval construction looked like a century ago as countries paid attention what someone else had come up with already.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-16 07:36||   2022-09-16 07:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe the Navy can salvage the 57mm gun and put it on a Coast Guard cutter, where it belongs.
Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-09-16 07:41||   2022-09-16 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 A rare case of a gummint agency not doubling down on a bad idea.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-16 07:51||   2022-09-16 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 
#3 A rare case of a gummint agency not doubling down on a bad idea.
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-09-16 07:51

MM,

Sadly, however, they had already quadrupled down on it long before this.

There is some - some - chimerical hope that the remaining LCS's can be hammered into some vaguely useful niche. I wouldn't count on it. The Constellations started out as a good idea but in the time since they were announced the USN has quietly started turning these things into hideously expensive Swiss army knives that won't be able to do anything well. It's so bad that one article I read the other day quoted a defense writer as saying, "The Navy is making these things into the Death Star."

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-09-16 08:25||   2022-09-16 08:25|| Front Page Top

#5 So...what's the net cost, after salvage, over the eight-year life of this boondoggle example?
Posted by Bobby 2022-09-16 08:28||   2022-09-16 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 "Cost-saving move"?

Get the f*** out of here.

The military is urging service members to apply for food stamps, but the US is sending how many billions of dollars to that HAZMAT dump called Ukraine. Give me a f***ing break.
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-16 08:42||   2022-09-16 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 The ship worked as designed.

It funneled money out of our pockets and into theirs. What's not to like?

And if you dissent you get called a domestic terrorist. Hooray for the USA-PATRIOT Act!
Posted by Sonny de Medici5342 2022-09-16 09:40||   2022-09-16 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Should've started out as a Clittoral Stealth Ship. Men couldn't find it.

/Rimshot
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-16 10:55||   2022-09-16 10:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Once their main weapon systems were cancelled, there was little for these ships to do. Brief talk of using them as minesweeper/layer ships, but then the hull and propulsion problems killed that idea.

Just giant lemons.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-09-16 11:23||   2022-09-16 11:23|| Front Page Top

#10 Should've started out as a Clittoral Stealth Ship. Men couldn't find it.

But if it patrolled The Arabian Sea it would get cut off.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-16 12:23||   2022-09-16 12:23|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Nicely done
Posted by Frank G 2022-09-16 12:29||   2022-09-16 12:29|| Front Page Top

#12 I can see the movie where some weapons officer is trying to sink one, starring Bill Mahar, "But I'm no man!"
-button press whoosh-
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-09-16 12:41||   2022-09-16 12:41|| Front Page Top

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