by Craig Hooper on August 30, 2010
If you want to see the latest odd twist on the Littoral Combat Ship contest, go read this piece over at DOD Buzz. It is a beautiful example of Lockheed-generated spin–spin so desperate and contrived I wonder if something happened recently to make the wheels come off the LCS-1 bid. DOD Buzz reports, all in […]
by Craig Hooper on August 20, 2010
Yes, the decks are stacked against my guess, but…I’m gonna put my chips on the table here. I think the LCS-2 will win the LCS sweepstakes this fall. By the end of September, even! First, all that internal volume in LCS-2 has a quality all it’s own. If we plan to use the LCS as […]
by Craig Hooper on August 4, 2010
The Navy’s LCS-1 RIMPAC photo album (photos taken from June 17 to July 31 2010) does a really good job of documenting life aboard the Little Sipper Freedom Class. Ahh, the easy routine of life at sea: Yeah, yeah, I know the ship has to iron out alongside replenishment issues, but…I suspect Freedom is worthless […]
by Craig Hooper on June 8, 2010
In theory, the LCS platform is meant to be used hard–handed off to new crews quickly, and then sent on deployment after deployment–but, in practice, well, um…not so much: The Freedom has been at San Diego since finishing up her maiden deployment April 23. A number of minor problems cropped up during her cruise, including, […]