Whoops USS Freedom - FAIL.

[lenseman]

he USS Freedom, the first of the US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), is on her way to Singapore. The press has reported that the ship is intended to show the US’s commitment to counter China in the region. Before it can do that however, the $670 million ship has to get there. The USS Freedom has suffered three blackouts so far in its transit between Hawaii and Guam. As reported by Aviation Week: The most recent two this week — including one March 21 — brings the outage total to three, all during the ship’s transit from Pearl Harbor to Guam en route to Singapore, says U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman Darryn James. The outage problems appear to be similar to those the ship suffered during a deployment in the Atlantic when the vessel was first pressed into Navy service, a source intimately familiar with Freedom operations says.

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[Sandyman]

''So to counter the Chinese, the US is sending a ship with an unreliable power plant and ineffective weapons — a ship that even the Navy says may not survive a fight a sea.''


Sounds very similar to our Type 45's.......................................a bag of Shoit at 1 billion £££ a pop.

 

[penfold]

Gosh, a new ship with a novel propulsion system is encountering teething problems; that's never happened before, the Naval Secretary and the chief of Naval Research ought to be birched on the Whitehouse lawn.

 

[LuigiWriter]

About a week ago it made it. The Japanese NewsLine program sent a crew out to look at it and get pretty much the same line, Of course with out nary a mention of three attacks of "Carnavalis Cruseitis.".