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From the specs the boat is actually pretty stable and was designed to be able to be able to launch helos in sea state 5, and recover watercraft in sea state 4.

I think the point is that the USNavy is adopting more of a Hi/Lo fleet strategy to deal with cheap terrorist and coastal dangers. Sorta a "Mr. Potatoehead" of combat ships that can be customized on the fly to whatever equipment it needs for specific mission. That way the ships cost around 200million dollars apiece instead of 2billion dollars apiece.