Over at the USNI Blog, Raymond Pritchett has a defense of the Littoral Combat Ship. He argues the numbers about the way the ship was purchased, but by the end of the post he gets to an important point: after hundred of millions of dollars over more than a decade, this is the core capability of the Littoral Combat Ship:
Sigh. There's more on the LCS here and every third post here.
My contention for years has been the Littoral Combat Ship represents, by design, an unmanned system mothership.A mothership for unmanned vehicles. Gee, that's nice. I'm in. Definitely something the military needs. As long as we don't do anything silly like make this the keystone of all Navy shipbuilding aside from aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines. I admired Chevy for making the Volt a major part of their program, but they still manufacture the Chevy Mailbu!
Sigh. There's more on the LCS here and every third post here.