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Revealed: US Navy's New Littoral Combat Ship Is Getting a Big Missile Upgrade ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Kris Osbourn)

USS Freedom ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons/ United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- Kris Osborn The Navy plans to deploy two separate long-range over-the-horizon missile weapons aboard its Littoral Combat Ship later this year as part of an effort to better arm the vessel and give it an ability to attack longer-range land and ocean targets than it is currently configured to do, according to industry sources familiar with the ship's development.  The Kongsberg-Raytheon Naval Strike Missile will soon deploy with the flat-bottomed "Freedom" variant LCS and a Harpoon Block IC missile will deploy on the Navy's trimaran "Independence" variant of the ship; the idea is to further assess each weapon in an operational setting as a way to better determine the ideal over-the-horizon weapon for the ship's future.  At the same time, the Navy is also weighing the prospect of arming the LCS with the emerging Long-Range Anti-Sh

Littoral Combat Vessel: The U.S. Navy's Great Relearning ( Source- The National Interest / Author- James Holmes)

LCS Independence ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Credits- United States Navy) Source- The National Interest Author- James Holmes The U.S. Navy, it seems, is undergoing what literary gadfly Tom Wolfe styles a “great relearning.” Wolfe recounts a 1968 visit to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, one of the meccas of hippiedom. Doctors at the district’s Free Clinic, he found, were “treating diseases no living doctor had ever encountered before, diseases that had disappeared so long ago they had never even picked up Latin names, diseases such as the mange, the grunge, the itch, the twitch, the thrush, the scroff, the rot.” Such maladies made a comeback because the hippies “sought nothing less than to sweep aside all codes and restraints of the past and start out from zero.” In short, Sixties youth rejected all precepts bequeathed by their elders—including basic hygiene. Having scoffed at accumulated wisdom of the ages, the hippies had to either put up with the rot or r

Here's Everything That's Needed To Run The Navy's Failed 'Ship Of The Future' ( Copy Right @ Business Insider)

Littoral Combat Ship ( Pic Courtesy- Wikimedia Commons/United States Navy) The Littoral Combat System was one of the Navy's most significant modernization efforts. The LCS was a push to replace dozens of vessels with next-generation ships  capable of fighting off submarines, mines or swarm attacks from asymmetrical enemies in coastal waters - while also possibly operating against conventional enemy battleships or aerial targets. The defense department eventually cut their order of littoral vessels in half, and some believe the entire LCS program to be a  bit of an expensive failure . The LCS was effectively canceled earlier this year when the Pentagon reduced its order from over 50 down to 32 vessels - it turns out the craft was " not expected to be survivable in high-intensity combat ," and wasn't as versatile in facing multiple threats as had initially been hoped. But the LCS was once at the cutting edge of military technology, and it's only fitting th

US, Japan to Jointly Develop Littoral Combat Ship ( Copy Right @ The Diplomat)

Image courtesy- The Wikimedia Commons Amid escalating tensions between Japan and China, a 12.2 percent  budget increase  in China’s defense spending, and fears that budget cuts for the U.S. military could have a negative impact  on the United States’ ability to “pivot” to Asia, U.S. and Japanese officials have announced plans to co-develop a new high-speed vessel capable of carrying helicopters. Following a meeting between U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida on March 4, the two governments announced that the Japanese Defense Ministry and the U.S. Department of Defense would hold studies for the joint development of the vessel under the bilateral Mutual Defense Assistance (MDA) agreement. Although very little information has been released about the project, analysts contend that the trimaran would likely be a lighter variant of the U.S. Navy’s 3,000-tonne littoral combat ship (LCS), a platform designed primarily for missions in