LCS. "Excuses to justify a complete dog's breakfast of a program..."

A tidbit, read it all at Cdr Salamander's house...

It still cannot conduct any warfighting primary mission areas. It is actually less combat effective than our USCG cutters at exceptionally higher costs, but that won't start the defense of the program.
Want to know how bad and undefendable the program is? Simple, they start making stuff up.


I let it pass last month - but no longer.

— Yesterday, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said the task force review had been “thorough and exhaustive,” but declined to say anything more about the findings, according to POLITICO’s Philip Ewing. He also praised the overall situation with the LCS, noting recent accomplishments including the USS Coronado successful test firing of the Norwegian-built Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile.

Here is the ground truth, and in some ways is a mash-up of a few conversations I've been part of the last few weeks SEPCOR: this was nothing but a PR stunt.
All that happened was they loaded a missile on a truck. They drove it to the pier. They put it on the flightdeck of the LCS and utilizing a laptop disconnected from the ship's combat systems and launched it. All the guidance and tracking was done off-board.
Look at the pic. That setup is not ready for shipboard use, isn't designed for it, and this really has nowhere else to go.

So the US Navy is dealing with an F-35 it can't afford and an LCS that it can't get right.

I once thought they were the most squared away service during this time of confusion in the Pentagon.

Not anymore.

We're seeing the worst leadership of our military, both civilian and uniformed, in over 100 years ... at least.  These people will go down in history as breaking a fine institution.