{"id":18265,"date":"2022-04-05T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:18:13","slug":"us-navy-ends-the-lcs-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/us-marine-beendet-das-lcs-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy ends the LCS experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US Navy draws a line under the overall rather 'frustrating' LCS experiment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It's not official yet, but we know, because it's been an agonising process for a long time. Now the nine Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships are probably destined for disposal. The most recent was commissioned in 2020, as the US Navy was never really happy with this experiment. The ships - USS Fort Worth (LCS-3), USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), USS Detroit (LCS-7), USS Little Rock (LCS-9), USS Sioux City (LCS-11), USS Wichita (LCS-13), USS Billings (LCS-15) and USS St. Louis (LCS-19) - are among the 24 ships that the Pentagon plans to decommission in the 2023 financial year, saving USD 3.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom-class ships were intended to perform anti-submarine warfare with the LCS ASW mission package. This included a towed, variable-depth, low-frequency active sonar that would enable the Navy to detect Russian submarines. Although the Raytheon-built AN\/SQS-62 VDS showed promise in early tests, it suffered from stability problems and had trouble towing. As a result of the poor performance, the Navy announced on Monday that it has cancelled the mission module. Because of the missing mission module and the unexpected cost of repairing a complex combiner for the Freedom-class ships, well-informed sources said it was not worth keeping the ships in service.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon's decision to withdraw the Freedom-class ships from service comes a few days after the heated debates about the 2022 budget.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die US- Navy zieht einen Strich unter das insgesamt eher \u201afrustrierende\u2018 Experiment LCS. Es ist noch nicht offiziell, aber wir wissen es, denn es war schon lange ein qu\u00e4lender Prozess. Nun sind die neun Littoral Combat Ships der Freedom-Klasse wohl zur Abgabe vorgesehen. Das j\u00fcngste wurde 2020 in Dienst gestellt, denn so richtig gl\u00fccklich wurde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,42,52],"tags":[2973,2975,2974,2976,355,2972],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-news","category-technologie-news","tag-lcs-experiment","tag-niederfrequenz-aktivsonar","tag-pentagon","tag-russische-u-boote","tag-schiff","tag-us-marine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}