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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Baby steps for the Navy’s LCS equipment testing

USS Freedom (LCS-1)Back in the day, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark used to tell anyone who would listen that he needed littoral combat ships “yesterday.”

Some top Navy officials continued to say that after he left, given the toll they said a high operational tempo was taking on the force. But even before the Navy got its next batches of LCS under contract, all that urgency seemed to evaporate.

Today, the fleet’s two existing ships, the steel and aluminum monohull USS Freedom and the aluminum trimaran USS Independence, are laid up for repairs.

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