{"id":147881,"date":"2023-09-29T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147881"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:40:00","slug":"the-decommissioning-of-a-navy-ship-commissioned-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147881","title":{"rendered":"The decommissioning of a Navy ship commissioned in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite what these ships had been advertised to Navy leaders, some Sailors appear to not have a good description of littoral combat ships. One label given to these ships was “little crappy ships.” The USS Little Rock contributed its fair share of “hiccups,” including when it got stuck in ice at the Saint Lawrence River for 3 months during its transit to Florida. It will join the list of ships that have been decommissioned.<\/p>\n

From 2WGRZ On Your Side:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The history for that relatively new version of a Navy ship with that dame name is unfortunately short-lived.<\/p>\n

It was the Navy’s traditional and ceremonial start of service on that cold, snowy December day in Buffalo as the crew did run up the gangplanks to “man the ship” and thus begin USS Little Rock Littoral Combat Combat Ship # 9’s Naval service.<\/p>\n

We showed you back then how the ship was actually built at a Wisconsin shipyard at a cost of over $350 Million dollars. There were even shipboard tours to help explain its new technology and potential missions of everything from special operations with Navy Seals and offshore support of landed troops to anti-submarine warfare.<\/p>\n

One officer explained for 2 On Your Side back then that the ship had a sophisticated camera to use with its main deck gun on the bow. “That’s the camera that the gunner would use to focus the weapon on.”<\/p>\n

But we also told you about the ship unfortunately getting stuck in the St., Lawrence River ice for three months in Montreal while it was underway to its assigned home base in Mayport, Florida. And then there was talk about the Pentagon’s whole supposedly “transformational” low-cost LCS program,<\/p>\n

But the concept got panned and then pulled apart by politicians on Capitol Hill. Chris Cavas, a Maryland-based naval warfare journalist and commentator with the CavasShips podcast, gave us an example. “The Navy was told to operate this ship with a crew of 40. Nobody ever said we could do it with 40. They were told to make it work with 40. It turns out that you can’t.”<\/p>\n

The eventual crew size was about twice that number.<\/p>\n

But there were also sea-side problems with the sophisticated ship propulsion technology which allowed the warship to be fast and maneuverable. It was a warship acting like a jet ski according to some.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional information could be obtained at 2WGRZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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