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I'l be honest she doesn't look like a good looking ship to me :|
Add in a set of 16" Guns then she might look ok.
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Hmm, could it be the sound of $400 million beyond the original baseline delivery price being crammed into the shipbuilding budgetary vacuum? |
A large, rather useless, but hugely expensive target is what my sources tell me... |
Something we agree on
An excellent idea on paper, and a void in the fleet structure that needs filling. The modularity concept is a good one as well, and one that has been pioneered in similar application to some success by the Danes. But I am told that the LCS classes were simply overengineered; like Molon said, they attempted to throw in everything but the kitchen sink, and the designs were constantly being altered during the build phase. The product is a coastal patrol ship that is almost as long as a FFG-7 and in fact two metres wider!