Why Does the US Navy Hate its Littoral Combat Ships 

They hate the Littoral Combat Ships because their failure proves that nobody above the rank of Commodore even knows how to find a littorus, much less combat one.

Another major problem is that the navy isn't qualified to maintain many of the ships systems. Instead private contractors must be flown across the world to perform maintenance duties that on any other ship would be done in house. This is because although the navy owns the ships and paid for the development of the technology the contractors retain the knowledge as their intellectual property. So navy personnel aren't allowed to know how the systems actually work. Also the ships were supposed to require less crew than normal. This also turned out to be false although we paid more upfront for this "feature" . So we paid more for the ships, more for the upkeep and more to man them. All of these problems were obvious from the start and anyone who helped push this program should be arrested as traitors and held accountable. The contractors and the navy personnel robbed the tax payers and they did it on purpose

Title should had instead been "Why Does the US Navy Hate its Little Crappy Ships"

Because they are breaking. Aluminum can't handle the load and twisting . And they aren't armed worth a damn .

Littoral combat ships are for shallow water, perfect for the coast guard and that's who I would give it to!

I did foundation machining on the Independence LCS’s for 4.5 years. Drive trains, engines, gear boxes, thrusters, sea ram, gun mounts….etc. etc. The aluminum is so unstable that when using a surface mounted milling machine it can barely operate without vibration. It came as no surprise to me when cracks started becoming a problem after being used in the open seas. Engineers did not like or want to hear of the consistent machining issues and challenges. It truly a Little Crappy Ship.

Those ships are a good idea but made with aluminum instead of steel and they are cracking up with stress fractures. Yes, the Navy has a crack problem with these.

If they only decided to upgrade those decommissioned Ticonderoga class warship that would have made more sense and maybe a bit time and cost saving

I love when the hired narrators don't care enough to correct grammatic errors

These have been a albatross around the Navy’s neck. What a stupid idea! No CIWS, no 5” gun, no Aegis, no ASW module. What is this aluminum hunk of junk good for. Who’s idea was this?

Like the F35 designed to do everything but not well at all.

Overpriced? Inefficient? Incapable? Pick your poison.

It would be a perfect choice for some smaller navies to defend their coasts with these. But then again these lcs would be too expensive for smaller navies.

When you’re talking about more than one dollar, it’s DOLLARS.

It's Lit-TOR-al, geeezzzz!

The literal combat ships are literally useless.

If a shop can't defend itself properly, then it becomes a liability.

Simple efficient cheap idea suddenly turned into useless money drain. Magic!

The plural of ‘dollar’ is dollars. Maybe not so much AI next time.

2:18 Hmm 🤔… “can’t defend itself from anti-ship missiles” 3 seconds later “armament includes Rolling Airframe Missiles…” Im confused now

I work in Mobile, AL where the Independence class ship are built. I have to say they look like aluminum tin cans up close. There is no way if I was in the Navy that I would want to go to war servicing on one of those ships. I don't think the Coast Guard would want them. What a waste of money.

They should of went for something like the type 31 a general purpose frigate that can carry 32 vls and can operate in littoral environments just hasn't quite got the speed..

The problem with this class is the issue of the doing more with less philosophy.

Why not ask the Australian guys that sold us on them? Im pretty sure they’re being sued or something similar

$21 billion down the toilet. Ouch.

I never understood the concept in the first place. Our peer threats are Russia and China and these LCS's don't contribute much, if anything, to the deep water fight and would last long in either China's or Russia's littoral coasts. Aluminum burns and melts in a fire aboard ship which makes damage control more difficult. It's a sitting duck for anti-ship missiles. The money would have been better spent in my opinion increasing the survivability of our existing ships, especially the aircraft carriers.

Perfect for the coast guard.

Wow I love the USN Literal ships

Modular, multi mission. It can do many things, but none of them really well. Jack of all trades and a master of none.

QUESTION! Why the "trimaran"-configuration?? ...that's something I could never figure out!...

RORO HIMARS Module adds Offensive firepower.

I thought the plural of dollar was dollars.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

LCS in both classes are not able to go on any deployment period

This is another example of trying to make a system that does multiple Missions failing. The F-35 is another example except they didn’t have the guts to cancel that

Cracks aren't good in a battle

This Ships the LCS was the worst idea that the Navy bought to replace a reliable FFG.

Shoulda never gotten rid of the Frigates

it seems US military have the tendency to always assume complete air dominance

The LCS was an ill-conceived idea for a Surface Combatant from the beginning. We have sunk in over $100Billion when construction and current accumulation of Operation & Maintenance investment is considered. That amount of budget would have built us a fleet of very capable multi-warfare frigates in any design. The LCS has become the Case Study in how NOT to build anything. Down-select to a single design never happened, and both were built in disparate locations (different congressional districts in Mississippi and Michigan). Supporting two separate hulls that did not even have engines in the propulsion system in common made them very expensive to train operators and technicians on, and maintain with two separate supply trains. Then when propulsion problems surfaced . . . the solution for one class was NOT the solution for the other class that had a similar problem. The LCS was never able to defend itself well against an attack. For this reason it is not a good vessel for an Independent Steaming mission, and the fleet is so small today that almost everyone has to do this at some point. The LCS was made for Littoral Operations (near the beach) and the fleet needs a Blue Water combat platforms. The ASW package never worked because you had these two volcano-like waterjets pointed right at the very sensitive acoustic sensor under water….(nuts). Repurposing of LCS is happening with operations in the 4th Fleet AOR supporting drug interdiction which they seem to do fine. In addition, the Mine Counter Measures modules will be used on LCS-2 Independence Class. The Oliver Hazard Perry Class FFG-7 Class Guided Missile Frigates were emasculated via the removal of the Mk13 Missile Fire Control System, and then parked EARLY! The Navy had estimated that a New Threat Upgrade Program for OHP FFG-7 would be too expensive so they spent about three times as much on the LCS Program. It turns out those NAVSEA Ivy League Wizards of Smart Aren’t. The Navy has divested itself over the last four decades of Floating Drydocks, and Destroyer Tenders and all the maintenance ratings that used to repair & maintain our Navy. The lack of a demonstration of wisdom in divestment of about half the public shipyards across the country has really come home to roost. The Navy is broke, and we neither have the people or the facilities to repair our fleet, and no amount of construction of shipyards is going to solve THIS PROBELM in under a decade. Another problem is how systems are designed, tested, installed and maintained. The Navy repairs very few things 'BY DESIGN' anymore. It is specified that way in the construction contracts. Smart Idea?! The current leadership and its 4 or 5 previous evolutions of same have not considered what is required to actually fight a war and win. Russia used to be a friend, and China has become the world’s low cost manufacturing center. We make very few things we actually need in our navy in the U.S. anymore. That has to be fixed. If it had not been for the last administration this nation would have lost our ability to make steel and aluminum which is a primary National Security Concern.. An LCS land based test site was never established for testing LCS equipment looking for problems . . . so they were always in the dark about the future and wearing rose colored glasses seeing butterflies and unicorns . . . but not reality. The Blue/Gold crew idea is a Red Herring of a concept for the Surface Fleet. First it came from the sub force and that example is used as the ‘case in point’ as how to fix the problem. Have you ever met our Submariners? Very Special and capable bunch. Every one of them goes through the most rigorous testing, Psychological evaluations, and training that is truly extraordinary and unique. That is why that screening is so TOUGH. Not your average sailor!!! Second, the Navy has an acute manpower problem right now and increasing that equation times two is just a non-starter. Third, our Navy Technicians do so well because they buy into the ownership of THEIR EQUIPMENT . . . and like any true professional they do not want anyone else’s grimy hands on their equipment. This has been the model on almost every strait, hot, fast running, award winning, and first rate crews in the Navy. So if you want to FINALLY totally destroy the Navy . . . just take their equipment ownership away from them. The LCS Program was/is/will continue to be one of the worse examples of 'lack of leadership' and a practical demonstration of malfeasance in the U.S. Armed Forces.

Beautiful ships but kinda useless. What a waste of money

This bird is always reading a script

Why have a new design of ship performing what USCG Cutters already perform? Why not just develop better Cutters?

It's ment to be "Lateral" combat ship

Smaller than the Perry class? Doesn't look it. By the way, ever see them try to sink a Perry class frigate? Tough as nails. Take a licking and stays in the fight.

38 ships being built in total*

Too bad it did not turn out like this video says...speed limited, mission limited

So basically, the US Navy has commissioned and built the equivalent to a Chinese military ship.

Aluminum hulls have to be taken out of the water once a year to fix pin holes and various other corrosion problems. Ones maintenance budget goes through the roof because of the material used in the construction of their hulls. Also the vessel is out of service for an extended period of time. I would fire the admirals that were in charge of this program. Stick to the original designs that work instead of experimenting just because some ship contractor gives you a power point presentation with a bunch of animated fantasies !

Please pronounce the ship type correctly. Is it a word for word ship or a close in shore ship.

problem with lcs is that it pretty much a big fast glorified offshore patrol vessel with a hanger sea ram and hellfire strap to it but cost almost as much a missle guided frigate and cost as much to run as a full blown destroyer once you have those naval strike hellfire strap to it but it canot hope to dominate anything more then drug trafficker fishing boats transport/tanker and other offshore patrol vessel i mean its fucked tup that a missle gun boat actully has enough firepower to outgun this fucking class of ships its pretty much a big opv ship later with the missle retrofit a long range missle gun boat with ability to carry and house helicopter for the price of a missle guided frigate but cost the same as proper aegis destroyer to maintain.

Replacing the cruisers that they plan to decommission makes more sense than it does to keep these crap ships in the fleet. The Navy needs a new cruiser more than they need these latrine class ships.

The Navy tried to turn a fast flat aluminum bass boat to a near shore fishing boat for using drag nets, long lines, gill nets, crab pots and trolling line. Well, it just not going to work started from the conceptual designs. But Navy sold this idea to White House and Congress, with the help of big contractors. Now we are stuck with these Little Crappy Ships while the old reliable Burke class are rusted away. Talking about government Fu'k up, this is classic. 🤔🤨🙄😎

Literal- Littoral 🤷🏽‍♂️

I’m flabbergasted at the 3 hull design. Even if its better to have that than a 2/1 hull design,its better to “house” the hulls in 1 hull to have more room & to avoid corrosion & paint jobs,even if that means a slower top speed & a higher fuel consumption rate.

They can't be upgraded more useful?

Just wonder why you keep repeating the information lol

Build of very flammable aluminium, a subpar engine and for a littoral ship, its depth of 4 meters not very good

LCS are pretty aluminum yachts with very little weapons that IF they are working are to pathetic to go up the real war ships of the ChiComs or Russkis. The LCS better suited for the Coast Guard

The Navy announced that they want to sell 2 LCS to whom might be interested from NATO,. What do you think? would be good such ships in the Black Sea rigt now?

Lesson Learned: NEVER LAUNCH A WEAPON WHOSE DESIGN, FUNCTION, SURVIVABILITY, and Maintenance is Deemed Farfetched, Way Ahead of its Time, COSTLY, and its Science and Engineering is proven to be Half Baked OR Not Gonna Work at ALL... *Heed this Unsolicited Advice US Armed Forces, and to every Armed Forces across the Earth Sphere... *FURTHERMORE: I'll give you a hint- watch Bandai Spirits - Sunrise Studios' Mobile Suit Gundam SEED & Gundam Seed Destiny - The Fictional Nation and Armed Forces of the United Emirates of ORB Union, through its Navy- have built and deployed Trimaran Type Warships, both the Aegis- class Destroyers and Takemikazuchi- class Aircraft Carrier- both capable of withstanding most attacks and can go at par against most Mobile Suit Launching Warships... Though Fictitious in its Battlefront Function - ORB Naval Forces' Trimarans SHOULD have been part of the REAL Life Japan Armed Self- Defence Forces IF AND ONLY IF- the Post World War II Era Armistice between the United States and the Empire of the Rising Sun/Government of Japan would be Nulled and Voided; allowing Japan to Reborn it's Armed Forces, adding Nuke Powered Naval Units such as Boomer Subs, Yamato- class Destroyers/Warships, and of course - the ORB Navy Trimarans... Bottomline: Revoke and Deem the US-Japan Armistice Null and Void, meet up with the Animation/Engineering Team back at Bandai Spirits- Sunrise Studios Japan responsible for those ORB NAVY Trimarans and incorporate these designs and function within the Navies of Japan, ASEAN, APEC, EU, and the United States... In a way, the US Navy's Littoral Trimarans would be given a new life and purpose - at the same time- ARM the Destroyer Types with Railcannons & Aegis-THAAD VLS/MLRS While the Trimaran Aircraft Carriers, would be able to launch Raptors, Lightning IIs, and other Attack Aircraft, while being able to defend and attack other naval units and enemy coastal bases with its onboard plethora of weapons similar to its Destroyer Counterparts, respectively...i

Those ships are getting broken by the sea due their shape. So much money waisted again.

lit-TOR-al not literary

Are we really surprised that is a failed project

It's all about money and politics. The technical reasons are just a cover up.

Just stick with carriers and submarines..no need for anything else

The military has gone woke more concerned about transgenderism racism communism

What does pogo do!? Nothing it seems !

Buy swedish hms Visby class Corvette

Blame to pension liabilities and etc...Who exactly they hired or pretend to hire? Not people who had real US advance accredited Degrees...Two designs...I bet they used the excuse to limit expose to risk which is a BUSINESS DEGREE concept...

They are supposed to be great ships. Someone is sabotaging the construction of these ships!!!

sell them to the Arab country but with full armament

Smells of pockets being lined in congress.

Those are actually awesome ships. I don't know what this channel is talking about

Why the U.S tax payers hate paying for someone not kept or being used?.......

.......in my own opinion The US Navy hated it because they wasted billions of dollars and created a Garbage.

These look stupid, might as well just give some rokce launcher to the crew of Viking warship

It's a waste of money and doesn't do anything promised.

Because they are worthless in combat.

Put down a lot of korean and world's stock. And then d'ont raise it up~~!! I's right~!! 🐢......

The rusian bomber Tu90 could bomb us out of the water. Either submersible city , flying air craft carrier , Poseidon anti submarine plane , floating island can help accomplish navy mission better and earth magnetic field control by the Seabee or corp of engineers are very potent

Crap both .Whole world knows that

Because there junk

Nice picture of your Social Security dollars (as well as most government programs) sailing away. Our surface Navy continues to flush money done the toilet. Enough already!

The entire program is a failure.