Just in case you weren’t sure, the LCS officially has some problems
In this piece from Defense News,
The LCS’s ability to quickly swap over from one module and mission (in other words go from sweeping mines to busting subs to carrying spec ops guys) is a moot subject. It seems the definition of quick swap is 30-60 days due to the logistics of the thing. And that’s in peacetime. This means that they have to come as they are to the next war, which isn’t with much.
Also, interesting side note is that USN is looking at swapping the 57mm peashooter out for a 76mm piece (which sailors thought was too small back in the 1980s!)
Anyway, the beat rolls on…
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
