InSurv recommends accepting LCS 1

[unhappycamper]

USS Freedom
Board of Inspection and Survey praises new ship


InSurv recommends accepting LCS 1
By Philip Ewing - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Aug 27, 2008 19:28:14 EDT

Navy inspectors have recommended that service officials accept the first littoral combat ship, the Freedom, after the ship finished its acceptance trails Aug. 21 on Lake Michigan, top acquisition officials announced Wednesday.

The Board of Inspection and Survey concluded that the Freedom was a “capable, well-built and inspection-ready ship,” according to information provided by Allison Stiller, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisitions. She and other top acquisitions officials spoke at a rare roundtable with reporters at the Pentagon.

Vice Adm. Kevin McCoy, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command, said he rode the ship for part of its trails and made a point to compliment the crew on the Freedom’s fit and finish.

The InSurv turned up 21 “starred” systems, said Wilmot Summerall, executive director of combatants for the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Ships, and the ship had about 2,600 trial cards overall. That’s far fewer than the class-leading destroyer Arleigh Burke when it entered the fleet, which generated more than 15,000 trial cards, Sumerall said, but acquisition officials conceded the 9,000-ton destroyer is much larger and more complex than the roughly 3,000-ton Freedom.

Still, McCoy said, nothing in the InSurv was surprising. “We didn’t get any real, ‘I gotchas,’ out of the report,” he said.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/08/navy_lcs1_insurv_082708w/%2e



uhc comment: Here's one gotcha --> this destroyer costs $5,300,000,000+ each; $10,300,000,000 if you include development costs --> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=259&topic_id=16825

[Captain Hilts]

1. And it's a highly vulnerable project/design/mission!!!!!

They Are Expendable...at $5.3bn a pop??

[unhappycamper]

2. Supposedly they have other problems also.

The missile thingies don't work very well and I guess there's problems shooting torpedoes at other floating things.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Gee, I thought we mastered those skills years ago!

[Angleae]

4. And again you keep confusing LCS with DDG-1000

DDG-1000, aka DD(X), aka Zumwalt is the $5.3 billion, 14000 ton monstrousity that got canned (only two to be built). LCS is a 3000 ton underarmed "frigate" that will cost an esitmated 250-300 million each (450 million each including development costs).

[unhappycamper]

5. D'oh.

You are correct - the DDG 1000 series are the expensive ones. Instead of $300 million, I think the LCS came in around $600 million or so.

The LPD series of craft are also in serious trouble. I guess they don't work all that well either.

[Angleae]

6. It's so comforting to know

the navy is spending out money so efficiently :sarcasm: