How The Navy’s Warship Of The Future Ran Aground -- Danger Room
With an enormous splash and cheers from spectators, the 378-foot-long vessel Freedom slid sideways into the Menominee River in Wisconsin. It was Sept. 23, 2006, and the U.S. Navy had just launched its first brand-new warship class in nearly 20 years.
Freedom also represented a new strategy. Where previous warships had been tailored for open-ocean warfare using guns, missiles and torpedoes, Freedom — the first so-called Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS — was designed for a new kind of coastal combat. It was smaller, more maneuverable. And instead of relying on sheer firepower, it carried few of its own weapons. Instead, it would function as a mothership for super-sophisticated robots that would do most of the ship’s fighting.
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How the Navy Screwed Up Its Warship of the Future -- Gizmodo
Despite troubled waters, Navy will stay the course with LCS -- DoD Buzz
Navy's LCS warship beset by cost, quality p
Freedom also represented a new strategy. Where previous warships had been tailored for open-ocean warfare using guns, missiles and torpedoes, Freedom — the first so-called Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS — was designed for a new kind of coastal combat. It was smaller, more maneuverable. And instead of relying on sheer firepower, it carried few of its own weapons. Instead, it would function as a mothership for super-sophisticated robots that would do most of the ship’s fighting.
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More News On The LCS Program
How the Navy Screwed Up Its Warship of the Future -- Gizmodo
Despite troubled waters, Navy will stay the course with LCS -- DoD Buzz
Navy's LCS warship beset by cost, quality p
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More News On The LCS Program
How the Navy Screwed Up Its Warship of the Future -- Gizmodo
Despite troubled waters, Navy will stay the course with LCS -- DoD Buzz
Navy's LCS warship beset by cost, quality problems -- Sign On San Diego
LCS 1 Continues Maintenance in Post-Shakedown Availability -- Marine Link
Troubled LCS warship to transfer to San Diego by Christmas -- Sign on San Diego
LCS readied for sea trials -- UPI