LCS Detroit.

Ominously prophetic considering the kinds of changes the Democrats have been enacting the last 6 years.

I was on the USS Taylor, DD468, a Fletcher class destroyer (2100 tons) during Vietnam and that ship is larger than the Taylor.

These LCS ships are the F-35s of the Navy. Overpriced boondoggles that do more to support the builder than accomplish missions. As long as they will be used in laboratory conditions by the same technicians that assembled these animals all will be well.

"Overpriced boondoggles"! That is exactly what the Polish Calvary officers were saying about tanks just before Hitler invaded. We don't need no stupid overpriced tanks we have horses and our swords...

And what will the Lightbringer, the Nobel Peace Prize winner do with such a vessel? Use it to help diseased invaders make it safely to our shores? Patrol the waters of the Red Sea to protect members of the religion of peace during the hajj?

Until this country develops a new understanding of self defense, better to sink it where it launched. They can set right to work on another. After all, it will provide the same benefit as the first one, massive enrichment of political cronies.

A man with an AR-15 who knows what to do with it and why he's doing it is much more valuable to this country than an LCS or F-35 commanded by politicians without the slightest clue about what they are doing and how to do it.

The whole class has a date with destiny.

Probably a RIMPAC. Not as shooters.

Didja see that boat rock? Not a blue-water design. It's gonna suck for those sailors when they hafta cross the ocean to the far side of the world. They'll all be on the taffrail heaving their guts the whole way. And then suck some more when they get to cruise up some third-world sewage river and take RPG's and mortars every mile.

What the heck happened to us? How could we have built such an obviously bloody useless tub? Might as well sail it straight to Gadani beach and sell it to the Pakis.

WE didn't, THEY did.

Hey, they successfully fired the Konigsburg Strike Missile off the USS Coronado (an LCS).
Here's the story from cdrsalamander:
"All that happened was they loaded a missile on a truck. They drove it to the pier. They put it (the truck) 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."

Battle ready!

The Lcs is little more than Gary Hart and Pat Schroeder's right-sized navy, but loaded with as much expensive gear as LockMart can manage. We don't fight to win wars so we build gear to play in the quasi-war.

Guns?

Looks kind of slick (cryptic meaning).

Can't possibly ride worse than the old USS DeSoto County, LST 1171. 410 ft, 8000 tons, flat bottomed and would rock and roll tied up to the pier.

Haze gray and underway. Nice to see, even though she is named for the formerly great city. I can only imagine what the new social justice crew will look like, though. I've heard some stories, they were not encouraging.

What....they didn't crew it with some cripps and bloodts?

Comments are funny as hell. But it's true, anything associated with our current ruling class is a joke. Everything Obungo puts his hands on turns to sh!t. We can't spend it fast enough.

These ships are underrated, the have great strategic and tactical value. Their firepower exceeds the firepower of our entire WW II navy. Just one of these ships could destroy any country on earth or with pinpoint accuracy destroy a single target anywhere on earth. They are fast, maneuverable and have extensive defensive capability from enemy attack. They can funtion well entirely alone or can be a valuable adjunct to a carrier fleet. They are perfect for the smaller "ponds" in the greater Middle East and everywhere on this blue planet. Either our military planners are getting smarter or luckier because these ships may turn out to be the greatest deterrent in the 21st century.

Ok, Michael Jorris, but I'm not stupid and I already knew that. Before I wrote my previous comment I thought about all that, and I carefully examined the video to see if what I was about to write makes sense. Look carefully at the end. The boat is sitting at its designed water line, so it is not empty. And also notice that the cradles the keel was ensconced in remain attached to the boat. So there was additional righting moment (which would increase the rolling rate), but the cradles also created additional drag, which would damp both the roll rate and the overshoot. So it remains my contention that we saw a reasonably accurate video of the rolling motion of that ship when in a seaway.

That ship is not designed for blue water. But since we are not going to use it on our own people (???), it's going to the far side of the world to a pesthole, where they just love love love making us look like stupid foolish rich saps by breaking our hi-tech weaponry with stone knives and bearskins and dirt cheap Russian mortars and RPGs.

As long as it stays in sight of shore it should do OK.
Consider the shoreline that has been designated as "Border Zone".
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-governments-100-mile-border-zone-map

Think: guns facing in, not out.

Crips and Bloods, Why not? Remember that story about Chris Kyle and the team boys on the flat-top? I can see that happening. It was already toxic forty years ago, I can only imagine how messed up it must be now. I was thinking more along the lines of...third generation Muslim Brotherhood, Annapolis '08, first command, hard butch XO, crew eighty percent sympathetic...