Even with the upgrade its still a poorly armed ship. Consider. The long retired Pegasus hydrofoil patrol boats and World War 2 US PT boats were both more heavily armed than this piece of Shiite.
Check out this tidbit from Navy Matters...
In addition, all the fundamental flaws that made the LCS such a poor design still remain. The ship has weight and stability issues, lack of compartmentation, structural weaknesses, excessive vibration at speed, weak flight decks, poor seakeeping by both versions, insufficient stores, inadequate range, poor endurance, sub-standard survivability (though some additional shrapnel protection will be added), etc.Read the whole thing here.
That about sums it up. Protecting manufacturing is more important than acquiring a capable warship. I'd like to be surprised but I'm not. Even sadder? It would be so easy to do this right but for some reason they insist on sticking with this substandard, and poorly conceived naval vessel.
A turd is still a turd.....even if you stick a few more missiles on it.
