Polmar’s Navy: Trade LCS & Carriers For Frigates & Amphibs

Polmar’s Navy: Trade LCS & Carriers For Frigates & Amphibs
Polmar’s Navy: Trade LCS & Carriers For Frigates & Amphibs

WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Ashton Carter wants to cut the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program to buy more missiles, aircraft, and upgrades to ships. That’s good as far as it goes, eminent naval historian and analyst Norman Polmar told me this morning — “in my opinion the decision should have been five years ago” — but it’s…

Sleepless In Singapore: LCS Is Undermanned & Overworked, Says GAO

Sleepless In Singapore: LCS Is Undermanned & Overworked, Says GAO
Sleepless In Singapore: LCS Is Undermanned & Overworked, Says GAO

UPDATED with US Navy response WASHINGTON: Some spectacular glitches marred the first overseas deployment of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship, including an electrical failure that left the USS Freedom “briefly” dead in the water. Now Breaking Defense has obtained an unpublished Government Accountability Office study of Freedom‘s Singapore deployment that raises more serious questions about…

Navy Needs Both LCS Versions For War With China, Iran; Navy UnderSec Defends Program

WASHINGTON: While the Littoral Combat Ship is not suited for the front lines of a war with China, it would provide vital protection to US supply lines in such conflict, said Under Secretary of the Navy Robert Work, and against Iran, LCS would be in the battle from “day one,” with eight LCSs ultimately operating…

Admirals Rally Round LCS As HASC Attacks; Lockheed Takes Fire, General Dynamics Escapes

WASHINGTON: Even as two Navy admirals praised the Littoral Combat Ship to reporters in a hastily convened conference call, the House Armed Services Committee ordered the Government Accountability Office to investigate the program. [CORRECTED (9 p.m. Wednesday) To Reflect That Navy Had Planned Interview For More Than A Week] “It’s disturbing that the Navy would…