USS Cooperstown (LCS 23), the U.S. Navy's Latest Freedom Type Littoral Combat Ship

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CMDR Moore, Commanding Officer, USS Cooperstown, takes you on a brief tour aboard the 23rd Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) of the US Navy.
Contrary to popular belief, the US Navy is NOT getting rid of all its LCS. It is actually still accepting delivery and commissioning new ships and plans on deploying them in various fleets and areas of operations.
USS Cooperstown is based at Naval Station Mayport in Florida, just outside Jacksonville. It is part of LCS Squadron 2 and is set to be commissioned in May 2023.
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@stevetomaselli882 Год назад

great to see the ship again, take good care of her, loved seeing her when you folks were here in Cleveland last year had a great tour and the ship looked really great.

@Nainara32 Год назад

The mission set makes these seem more like they were developed for the coast guard than the needs of USN.

@patrickchung2697 Год назад

They are still little crappy ship. I don’t know why else they are still being built.

@rickjames18 Год назад

I think the ASW capabilities were the biggest selling point along with the speed. Personally, I don't know why LCS ships are still needed if they can't hunt subs, but I am no navy guy.

@gotanon9659 Год назад

@@rickjames18 it still needed so the navy doesnt frickin use a DDG to chase after pirates, Stop maritime drug trafficking and maritime law emforcement...

@gotanon9659 Год назад

@@patrickchung2697 maybe the fact that its cheaper, it could go to places not even the constellation class frigates can go and can become a small amphib ship as well as a drone mothership.

@rickjames18 Год назад

@@gotanon9659 That's true but the Coast Guard can find plenty of other ship builders for that find of work. We NEED heavy hitters in the SCS now. LCS ships just aren't enough. I mean, we are not in a good position. The Chinese are literally building 5 frigates in one port all at once. That's just frigates, not counting destroyers, subs, everything else. Things must change.

@watermirror Год назад

Not minding its widely known issues, they are still the ships fitting in highly asymmetric areas esp the Spratlys. ESSM can serve as enhancement. No need for cruise missiles, just SSMs that can reach the tip of the horizon. Wondering if it has ffbnw keel sonar, bluewatcher can operate at 40 kn

@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520 Год назад

they aren't fitted with long range SAM though, ESSM is more of a point defence AA weapon, LCS definitely have an identity and cost issue

@Orphican Год назад

ESSM and Sea RAM are two different missiles. LCS don't mount ESSM. They do have AGM-114L Hellfire which can reach the "tip of the horizon" and NSM which can go much farther but with only Sea RAM for defense they need to avoid being shot at by anything with real throw weight like the aircraft and shore batteries China has in the south china sea.

@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520 Год назад

@@Orphican great point, additionally if the LCS is for war in the South China Sea they should slap a larger caliber main gun onboard you need a 5inch for naval gunfire support the 56mm is a rapid fire defence weapon If this warship is meant to do all the miscellaneous tasks during war in the SCS it’ll constantly need to operate closely under an air defence umbrella and probably need a frigate or destroyer escort Given the latest naval paper suggests the LCS cannot conduct anti submarine operations it’s going to leave the USN with a capability gap

@watermirror Год назад

@@Orphican hellfire is only 8km. Horizon is farther than that. But that can be ok if USN relentlessly follows Chinese warships at that range in the Spratlys or at least when tensions flare up on Taiwan Strait China's fake isles in the Spratlys are expected to have stockpiles of tactical BMs. It'll be a waste to use SM6 or even SM2 against the lower ones. Even against the targets worthy for SM6 & SM2, they might also fail, so ESSM would serve as point defense. SM3 might also fail against multi-warhead ASBMs, thus ESSM just in case. That's why I said "ESSM as enhancement"

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

The latest development of the Littoral Combat Ship, the US military has restructured it and equipped it with multiple vertical launch systems. On September 13, a portable missile launcher capable of launching long-range anti-ship and anti-aircraft weapons was installed on a Littoral Combat Ship in San Diego, California. test. The US Navy's "Savannah" littoral combat ship has a container-type vertical launcher installed on the deck. This launcher can launch long-range anti-aircraft missiles, anti-ship missiles and "Tomahawk" cruise missiles, greatly enhancing the Littoral combat ship firepower, an AN/TPQ-53 anti-artillery radar used by the US Army also appeared next to the missile launcher.

@shatteredstar2149 4 месяца назад

Ships would have been amazing in the littorals if the mission modules and shaft gearing weren't fucked up so badly.

@philiplewis8213 Год назад

According to wikipedia ( yes, not always 100% correct ) 1 × BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun, 400 rounds in turret and two ready service magazines with 240 rounds each.[16] 1 x Mk 49 launcher with 21 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Surface-to-Air Missiles 4 × .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns 2 × 30 mm Mk44 Bushmaster II guns (part of SUW module) 8 x RGM-184A Naval Strike Missiles[17][18] 24 × AGM-114L Hellfire missiles (planned part of SUW module)[19] 1 x Lockheed Martin 150 kW High Energy Laser[20] Personally, I would put a bigger gun on it plus make sure the firescouts were offensively armed. And if one of their helos has ASW capability, even better.

@redbug3696 Год назад

You didn't mention the on-board Starbucks cafe! 😭

@philiplewis8213 Год назад

@@redbug3696 And soft serve icecream machine too.

@redbug3696 Год назад

@@philiplewis8213 ---😆

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@Alsayid Год назад

It seems to me that a ship of this purpose should have been made smaller, simpler, and much cheaper. Mission creep definitely took over during designing, and so did cost.

@ARCNA442 Год назад

Except LCS isn't actually expensive. Each LCS cost around $500m, which puts its squarely between the USCG's NSC ($700m) and OPC ($400m). They cost half as much as an FFG and a third as much as a DDG. You also can't really make them any smaller without losing the aviation and mission spaces. They could have used a simpler powertrain, but going diesel only would have left them too slow for the surface warfare mission or to operate with other surface combatants and dropping from 40 to 30 knots wouldn't actually have reduced complexity that much.

@Orphican Год назад

@@ARCNA442 The problem is they can't actually do any of the missions they were desinged for very well. ASW? AA? ASuW? An Arleigh Burke does all of this and more with greater fidelity and resilience. Counter Drug/Piracy, LE, and other low intensity missions are they only places LCS fits.

@ARCNA442 Год назад

@@Orphican It'd be pretty bad if a ship costing four times as much wasn't more effective at high-end missions like AAW and ASW - the problem is you can't afford enough Burkes to do everything the Navy needs to do, and they are overkill for most missions. You say LCS is only good for low intensity missions like that's a bad thing, but that's exactly what it was intended for. It can handle 90% of what the Navy does day to day at a fraction of the cost of any other option, but unlike other patrol craft, it can still contribute to the high-end fight with important niche capabilities like MCM and shallow-water operations. And when you include its massive aviation facilities, it actually has better ASuW than at least half the warships on the planet.

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@starrionx1 9 месяцев назад

@@ARCNA442 Except multiple news sources report that running them costs almost as much as a Burke class with far less capability.

@swayzefan3600 5 месяцев назад

for people that criticize the lack of weapons and AEGIS, these are meant to do task such as patrolling near somalia for pirates, catching smugglers, clearing minefields etc, stuff that arleigh burkes are currently having to do. this frees up arleigh burkes to be able to do their actual role. i don't think people realize we have 2 billion dollar arleigh burkes chasing somali blacks around on their wooden skiffs instead of maintaining presense in the SCS

@kevinbryer2425 Год назад

Such unrealized potential.

@charlesjohnson9879 Год назад

Meh. It would have more potential if only t were a different ship entirely, say, a frigate.

@deanwood1338 Год назад

I think the problems stayed when they didn’t really know what they wanted… the wanted it to do to many things now it can hardy do anything

@kevinbryer2425 Год назад

@@charlesjohnson9879 Granted part of the problem is doctrinal, there is no reason to try to hurl a 3500 ton vessel at nearly 50kts. If you have to pursue something that fast, use a helicopter or a PT boat, like those Mk VI's we can't seem to find a use for. All of that reconfigurable space exhibited here could enable the ship be employed as a tender. That move alone would a allow for a dramatically simpler propulsion system, and greatly reduce wear and tear, solving much of it's reliability problems. But the biggest upgrade would come in the form of lining the sides of the helipad Mk-57 PVLS cells. Even assuming you have to diversify the type into self-defense, tactical, and strike lengths like the Mk-41's, and employ the shorter ones, that would transform this notoriously toothless wonder into corvette capable of commanding the littorals and even supporting the battlegroup with ESSMs, SM-2's, ASROCs, and multirole JSMs. The addition of Aegis radars, as proposed for export sales, would be icing on the cake.

@AugmentedGravity Год назад

@@charlesjohnson9879 no

@AugmentedGravity Год назад

We might yet see some

@ericphan-kim1522 Год назад

It would be nice to see a video of the mission modules

@spn3925 Год назад

I think the interchangeable mission module idea got scrapped. Each active ship is just going to have one type of mission

@damongraham1398 Год назад

I have been a fan since I read the Street Fighter documents. Yes, it went over budget. Has their been a military project that did not go over budget? The cracks and "transmission" issue were damn embarrassing. They are fixed now. The LCS were not suppose to replace destroyers. They were not designed to replace the frigates. The mission module were suppose to replace frigate. The ASW module failed not the LCS. I still think the mast should be replaced with a tethered aerostat. Here is another wild a$$ idea, turn everything behind the exhaust stack into a floating patriot missile platform. Yes, LCS doesn't have the range of bigger warships. Just include ships like the USNS Puerto Rico and a flotilla of 4 LCS and 2 expeditionary fast transport loaded with fuel, ammo and supply and that will add another layer of defense to both carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups. The LCS can pull their weight if given a chance.

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@vernonjones2907 9 месяцев назад

Good piece of equipment to have close to shores of the USA!!!!

@Cap-hornier Год назад

J'aurais adoré être chef de quart sur ce navire.

@redbug3696 Год назад

In the on-board Starbucks? Or in the Navy? 😆😂🇺🇸

@rickjames18 Год назад

I think the ASW capabilities were the biggest selling point for the LCS along with the speed. Personally, I don't know why LCS ships are still needed if they can't hunt subs, but I am no navy guy. I don't know, some say it is cheaper to have patrolling and does have a specific purpose. I think it is too lightly armed to help in a war and cost too much without being able to do all it was meant to, so why continue?

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@austinwolfe9606 7 месяцев назад

Ask yourself, when was the last time America used more than 5 destroyers in any sort of conflict?

@bcharms10000 5 месяцев назад

LCS would be ideal for exactly the sort of situation the US is facing in the Bab Al-Mendeb right now. If Navy had more and they were all up to snuff, their operations would be cheaper and more effective

@rickjames18 5 месяцев назад

@@bcharms10000 In some situations yes but from my understanding they are not going to be very useful in downing ASCMs or ASBMs or drones. Maybe they could help patrol not sure how they would be more useful.

@petereffin4373 2 месяца назад

You said it all brother.

@yankee04 11 месяцев назад

Great name to honor those veterans.

@TugSkipper45 9 месяцев назад

There is a strong belief that the names Independence and Freedom came from the Movie “Armageddon” that was released prior to the naming of the Navy ship classes. Not too original.

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle Год назад

W A S T E O F M O N E Y

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle 9 месяцев назад

@@tcp0023 My point still stands, they are the least armed ship.

@markdunnam2745 7 месяцев назад

Agreed this would make a great coast guard intervention ship but comes up short for a true Navy combat ship. I would think we would see something like this off the American coast rather than a contested battle field.

@Chios82100 5 месяцев назад

My country Greece, just bought 4 of them from USA .... Not sure what to think of these, getting mixed reviews... But if the US Navy is trying to get rid of them, they can't be that great... The good thing is Greece isn't planning on using them for anything serious anyway. More for patrol and reconnaissance missions and possibly mine detection etc.

@davidanalyst671 4 месяца назад

this would fit greece well, but the USA is facing down an opponent like china. so we really shouldn't be selling any ships at all

@TP-ie3hj 11 месяцев назад

It can still be a very useful tool in a real war. Just need to man up a little. You can strap ASM all over the flight deck and you could easily fit ESSM from older ships...342mm, torps and a towed sonar are all an easy do. Fire scout can live under canvas and does not need the hangar. Problem becomes when you have too much shit that needs to be high speed crammed into the ship. its fast as hell it has a gun and a helicopter... it may not do well if hit so dont get hit! Modern day PT boats.

@a1tse191 Год назад

how does it compare with the type 052d or type 054a of the PLAN. can it fight or flee

@BravoCheesecake Год назад

I guess someone doesn't get what an LCS is. This is meant for littoral operations, close to shore, mostly defensive or counter smuggling operations.

@NavalNews Год назад

Exactly

@steamedcream7671 Год назад

One is a giant speed boat with a big flight deck and designed for low intensity conflicts in the littorals. The other 2 are full up blue water multi mission surface combatants. So to answer the question, "how does it compare"... It doesn't, because it's a completely different kind of warship designed for a completely different kind of fight... That being said, I still think a 350+ foot long, lightly armed, giant ass speed boat that costs several hundred million to procure and tens of million to run per year is a bit silly.

@Terryray123 Год назад

@steamedcream7671 it's cause of the contracts...

@BravoCheesecake Год назад

@@Ashley-wm7ix Yeah for the US mainland, I'm talking overseas littorals. Something like off the coast of the Philippines or Guam.

@alexis_ianf Год назад

The LCS both (Freedom and Independence classes), had potential especially looking at the variant being built for the Royal Saudi Navy Force the MMC which could be armed with either a 57mm or 76mm main gun, twin 30mm secondary guns, RAM launcher, 8 SSM, and 8-cells Mk41 VLS for 32 ESSM stored quad packed per cell (The Saudi version will use Sea Ceptor instead), would have been an ideal corvette class with reduced speed to just 35 knots with a range of 3,500 nm at 15 knots and crew of around 115-130.

@MUMMY9ful Год назад

Our variant has 11 cell 8 mark41 3 ExLs < I don’t remember the name of the launcher it is produced by lockheed martin It will use sea captor camm-er Also captas-4 sonar the latest version Hensdolt trs-4d gan radar Thats wgat I remember

@MUMMY9ful Год назад

Our variant is also longer and has more displacement around 4200

@MUMMY9ful Год назад

Also combtass-21 derived from ageis common library source

@MUMMY9ful Год назад

Also torpedoes ssm missiles also decoys and front hull mounted sonar It will carry our mh-60r It has 3 saab fcr It is well-armed It is frigate in my opinion

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@AugmentedGravity Год назад

Such a sad situation around these beautiful vessels.

@kennethbarrett6469 Год назад

Beautiful navy ship just an opinion they should have auto Cannon's and laser air defense systems on it as well so that way it could shoot down hypersonic guided missiles and other missiles coming their way because with sea ram and laser air defense systems would be a powerful air and anti missiles defense

@danielc2701 Год назад

Lasers can't work against hypersonics, hypersonic missiles are already heat resistant to even beyond what the lasers these days can put out due to their need to resist adiabatic compression. Lasers are only good against small threats like UAVs or RPGs before they are fired. You need missiles to hold off hypersonics, they are too tough for lasers and too fast for CIWS "autocannons". It's just in a bad spot for close range defences like what you described to work properly.

@brunol-p_g8800 Год назад

Electronic warfare weapons instead of lasers, fit it with radar jammers and it can take down any missile, hypersonic or not, by jamming its radar and deviating it

@danielc2701 Год назад

@@brunol-p_g8800 Problem with jammers is that you need the frequency of the radar to jam it, a wrong frequency won't work to generate a false target, which is why AESA radar is such a hot topic these days. It's also why chaff and flares are still in use today, a physical object doesn't care what frequency the radar uses, so it's more reliable against equipment you don't have the stats for yet.

@IMGreg.. Год назад

@@danielc2701 Current lasers can't take down hypersonics, true but they can do everything else. Not sure this ship has the power train for even current lasers. Not sure why it's not a Coast Guard ship given it's ASW limitations.

@danielc2701 Год назад

@@IMGreg.. And what is this "everything else" you are referring to? Even in live fire tests, they only burn up the outboard motors of speedboats after a few seconds of burning, anything which is screened or even minimally armored is practically immune to this type of lasers. It's pathetically weak for the given energy expenditure. I see it as useful only against small UAVs where they can burn them up before they close in but anything larger is a tall order for current lasers. And you can get the same end result from a 20mm shell with more utility too. Not even hypersonics, lasers would have a losing struggle even against something like a Harpoon or a Termit much less a Styx or an Onyx. And yes, the LCS should have been a Coast Guard ship. If the Coast Guard could afford it lol. It's what we would call a "white elephant" in the past.

@nicholashughes8214 Месяц назад

Is that standing order about not sailing in heavy sea states and not going over like 15 knots still in force?

@Kevin-Brent Год назад

LCS - Lockheed Cash Sack

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@Kevin-Brent 9 месяцев назад

@@tcp0023 Pfffffft... Doesn't even address why LCS is a floating turd. Be better off putting all that on an unpowered barge, than Lockheed Cash Sack.

@Richard-od7yd Год назад

Without looking inside I'll bet that the Crews Quarters are still as cramped as ever !! The Navy has never learned that a well rested crew is a ready crew !! All that Tech and sailors who are too tired to use it correctly adds up to many losses of life . As if being at Sea isn't hard enough 🤔 BM3 HUNT 1975-79

@TONSBERG100 Год назад

That will never change.

@watermirror Год назад

I always thought they are either lavish or sufficient esp Zumwalt, lcs. I mean lcs is ~3500t but not a full corvette, so kinda think the extra tonnage goes to larger crew quarters

@petesheppard1709 Год назад

The LCS's crew problem was not enough crew; the designers over-emphasized automation, and it turned out that the crew present was overworked anyway. From other videos I've seen, the crew quarters are pretty nice.

@redbug3696 Год назад

The on-board Starbucks cafe should change all that you mentioned there! ⭐ 💵 😆😎

@ronniefarnsworth6465 Год назад

Don't build anymore, put the money into building more FFGs and the New DDG !! Semper Fi

@ronanders4843 Год назад

I know a sailor out there!

@whome1629 Год назад

Mayport is inside of Jacksonville not just outside.

@dt6653 Год назад

I like CMDR Moore. I didn't know Navy people dress like that.

@patrickbrooks7435 Год назад

That uniform came into play in 2017

@agactual7901 Год назад

NSM has been ordered by USN. Not sure if because this LCS is New and awaiting its NSM delivery, installation? Unless its plan by USN to assign this LCS to AMW duties only?

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@arkad6329 9 месяцев назад

Idk why they built these. They’re not warships. And they’re crap at escort duties. Scrap these, and replace them with corvettes and frigates. The Heritage Class Cutter is essentially a corvette. And the Legend class Cutter are essentially small frigates. These are relatively reliable ships, and with a few design changes, could easily fill the small surface combatant role that the LCS is(n’t) doing.

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@arkad6329 9 месяцев назад

@@tcp0023 great. Now we're duct-taping VLS cells to them. I'm sure that will have no problems whatsoever.

@valval8957 10 месяцев назад

Этот пароход тоже списывают?

@sc1338 10 месяцев назад

Not this one yet.

@sc1338 10 месяцев назад

Keep the freedom class, get rid of the Alu independence

@mosesgoldbergshekelstien1520 Год назад

the Oliver Hazard Perry's needed a real replacement not these Frankenstein ships

@sc1338 10 месяцев назад

These could be great! mismanagement

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@Orphican Год назад

No offense to Cooperstown's Commander and crew but I hope they enjoy patrolling the south Atlantic if/when a shooting war with China kicks off.

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@smgri 10 месяцев назад

As far as I know both classes are being scrapped .

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@user-gf3lw5pi4t Месяц назад

Did it end up in the scrap yard ?

@rael5469 Год назад

C-Ram looks too small and too few.

@davidanalyst671 4 месяца назад

yeah, that was the one thing I was looking at. But this boat is littoral, so it will have backup nearby.

@rael5469 4 месяца назад

@@davidanalyst671 That makes sense David. They won't be operating alone.

@thornmtsetfwa1155 Год назад

This an expensive coastal guard ship. BTech features

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@giamannguyen797 Год назад

Tai sao haoky gan rat it vu khi len tau nay:tau da nang sao:

@udirt 9 месяцев назад

That aged badly. maybe they can just be headed to .ua?

@GrantvsMaximvs 10 месяцев назад

😂😂😂

@TONSBERG100 Год назад

This ship has no missiles or torpedoes. Only a main gun. Does this ship have a purpose? Other than being a sitting duck in the next war.

@Nainara32 Год назад

It could probably be used to ward off China's maritime militia. Cost effectively? Probably not.

@spn3925 Год назад

The original purpose was to go after small fast attack boats in littoral ( shallow waters). I have seen them with missile systems here in Marinette but I haven't really looked at the later models recently.

@TONSBERG100 Год назад

@@spn3925 I think they would have been better to have bought corvettes like the SAAR 6 or the VISBY class. They are cheaper more reliable. and they have more fire power.

@damongraham1398 Год назад

they have the longbow missiles and will get the Naval Strike Missiles. For some reason people are forgetting that LCS are not designed to take on near peers. Yes, they are expensive. That can do what they are designed to do. Now with drones they can do more.

@daveoceanic5 10 месяцев назад

@@TONSBERG100 USN doesn't need that; it already has powerful, transoceanic submarine and air-based ASuW capabilities. Corvettes with AShMs are for countries with much smaller defense budgets who still want to sink ships in their own backyards.

@petereffin4373 2 месяца назад

Still an over-priced heap of steel. Also why wear green pattern cammo uniforms in the Navy.

@stephen7701 6 месяцев назад

I would be embarrassed to be the captain of this trash lol now being a captain of the new constellation frigates is nice on the resume..

@PrimarchX 11 месяцев назад

No NSSM? I guess it's counterdrug and piracy for this ship.

@daveoceanic5 10 месяцев назад

Countering non-state actor-level small boat swarms and mine warfare in the Persian Gulf without expensive ports and with mobile logistics was their exact concept. The modular design was supposed to alleviate the expensive process of retrofitting old hulls for new missions. The criticisms of them being thin skinned and under-gunned are valid only because they're now being expected to augment a fight against a much bigger opponent-something for which the Navy had always relied upon its subs and strike fighters, not surface combatants.

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад

@PrimarchX 9 месяцев назад

@@tcp0023 That is interesting. It's the Mk70 system used by the Army and along with the TPQ-53, that both appear to sit on the helo deck. Not an ideal setup since it negates the aviation capability of the ship. I'd prefer to see a couple quad packs of NSMs somewhere forward, myself.

@createdeccentricities6620 Год назад

Under armed, overpriced.

@daveoceanic5 10 месяцев назад

Worse; completely obsolete. They should all be stationed in the Persian Gulf, instead of trying to adapt them for the South China Sea and Straits of Formosa.

@tcp0023 9 месяцев назад