Its primary mission is Offensive Surface Strike.How will that work with only Mk49 RAM?
>>64888532>minimal changes to meet frigate capabilityKek, its gonna be USS Cancellation 2.0
This thing is outgunned by corvettes 1/6th it's tonnage.Total joke.It can't do escort or ASW, it has no sonar, no quiet machinery, no asroc, nothing.
>>64888636>it has no sonar, no quiet machinery, no asroc, nothing.It has 148 t̶a̶r̶g̶e̶t̶s̶ sailors
>>64888532With the 16 NSMs perhaps?
>>64888703The YJ-18 has a much greater range putting these ships into threat range long before they can strike.
>Navy wants a proven ready to build frigate design>Seems to have one?>Retards go, NO YOU CANT DO THATNeed to dumped the flight deck t bh
>>64888710The National Security Cutter is not a frigate. It is a civilian offshore patrol vessel.
>>64888532Probably with the 16x Naval Strike Missiles, I'd guess. Maybe with the 48 Hellfires if it's shooting vehicles close to shore.I still don't get why we canceled the LCSes, though. Either of them is better than this shitpile.
>>64888951They got bad press from technical issues stemming from setting the speed requirements a lot higher than they probably should have. On top of that it caught the flak any light surface combatant program does here when it doesn’t produce a fully capable Burke at half the cost and displacement. This lead to the program being labeled as failed by the media, meaning Congress doesn’t want to pay for it. Honestly that Freedom derivative being sold to the Saudis is probably a better buy, but it doesn’t really matter since these hulls are just meant to free up Burkes from safe bullshit jobs to do actual fighting. The actual Coast Guard ships have done a fine job snatching Russian tankers, which is reasonably the most combat these should ever be used for, since a frigate sized frigate just can’t fit the tubes and systems needed to be survivable in a modern peer conflict.
>>64888951>I still don't get why we canceled the LCSes, though. Either of them is better than this shitpile.They aren't useful in a peer war and are not upgradable like the FF(X). That being said the flight 2 of the class will be a complete fuck up.
>>64888903>offshore patrol vessel.Don't use words you don't understand.
>>64889032>They aren't useful in a peer war and are not upgradable like the FF(X)FF(X) isn't useful in a peer war either and it's even less upgradeable.
>>64889043>FF(X) isn't useful in a peer war eitherSure>and it's even less upgradeable.Not true, there's some internal space in the class for Mk41s. Both LCS classes are very finely tuned, meaning large alterations will be a nightmare.
>>64888532>Navy still refuses to dump flight decks on its dead weight definition of this particular class of ships Dump the flight deck and uparm these new frigates with added missiles and more defensive capabilities. This isn't the Coast Guard where they absolutely need flight decks for things like search and rescue or apprehending traffickers at sea.
>>64889060If they get rid of the flightdeck they will have zero ASW capabilities.
>>64889060No retard. If you want firepower just buy another Burke. Heli operation is required for interdiction and sea patrol. You know, the stated role of these ships.
>>64889055>there's some internal space in the class for Mk41sNo there's not, which is why Flight 0 will not be equipped with VLS and they'll have to either lengthen the ship or decide what features are optional with Flight 1. Hell, Flight 0 won't even have a RHIB, they're sticking a shipping container full of Hellfires where the boat ramp goes. There are Freedoms equipped this very moment with Hellfires and a boat ramp at the same time.
