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2018-02-17 Science & Technology

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Posted by 3dc 2018-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ] Top

#1 You may as well remove it from your defense posture review along with the ship stuck in the ice and the two others that got rammed by commercial cargo.

You may as well remove the LCS as well. Ohh and the F-35 too.

The 110th Congress was the end of the military - topped by the fucking obama.

Posted by newc 2018-02-17 00:50|| 2018-02-17 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 just because you can doesn’t mean you should. along with this mess is the DDG-1000 reduced manning because sensors will alert if there are issues. sorry but Windows 10 cant shore up a bulkhead or man a firehose.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2018-02-17 08:56|| 2018-02-17 08:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey, they wanted a railgun. They got a railgun.
(It just fires F18's rather than shells.)

Posted by ed in texas 2018-02-17 09:02|| 2018-02-17 09:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Where are the Patriots? Back when I was doing this stuff we would move heaven and earth to make sure that the product worked.

Posted by C. Galeazzo Lover of the Boskonians2597 2018-02-17 09:10|| 2018-02-17 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 So, sort of like its namesake?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-02-17 09:44|| 2018-02-17 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Technological Arrogance is not new. In the Spanish American War the US Navy fielded the USS Vesuvius, a dynamite gun cruiser with three 15-inch pneumatic cannons (!). At least it kinda sorta worked in action -- supposedly.
Does the LCS have any, ANY working modules? The modules are the whole reason for the class as is a working catapult for an aircraft carrier.

Posted by magpie 2018-02-17 11:18|| 2018-02-17 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 So Trump was right. Again.

Posted by gorb 2018-02-17 15:30|| 2018-02-17 15:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Being a shipbuilder I will make my comments brief. The manner in which the customer oversees every facet makes the task extremely difficult. We know what we are doing let us do it. We take pride in our work when we are allowed to do it.

Posted by Claique and Company3404 2018-02-17 18:45|| 2018-02-17 18:45|| Front Page Top

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