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Another LCS Breaks Down, This Time in Mid-Pacific

WASHINGTON — In yet another incident in what is turning out to be a bad year for the US Navy’s littoral combat ship program, the LCS Coronado is reported to have suffered a propulsion problem in the mid-Pacific and has turned back to return to Hawaii. The latest issue, this time with an Independence-class LCS variant, follows a…

WASHINGTON — In yet another incident in what is turning out to be a bad year for the US Navy’s littoral combat ship program, the LCS Coronado is reported to have suffered a propulsion problem in the mid-Pacific and has turned back to return to Hawaii. The latest issue, this time with an Independence-class LCS variant, follows a series of problems striking ships of the Freedom class.

Sources said the Coronado is about 800 nautical miles west of Hawaii, proceeding at about 10 knots. The Military Sealift Command oiler Henry J. Kaiser is accompanying the ship. About 70 sailors are aboard the LCS.

The Coronado left Pearl Harbor on Friday for the western Pacific, where it was to operate for at least 16 months based from Singapore. The ship recently completed several weeks of operations with the Rim of the Pacific exercises, operating from Pearl Harbor.

via www.defensenews.com

My readers always bitch about the F-35 program, but the LCS fiasco is the real crime.

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  1. ron snyder

    Both brought to you by Lockheed. F-35 and LCS are the two biggest cash cows for LM.

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  2. McThag

    To be fair, LM is only at fault for half of the LCS.

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  3. CT II Raven

    You will not hear me trash the F-35
    Seems my near term future income depends on it being successful
    OF course, the more it breaks, the more work for me
    🙂

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  4. Quartermaster

    When I was aboard the Courtney, the ship was older than 80%+ of the Officers and crew. The ship, while the keel was buckling just forward of the superstructure, was still reliable. I would hate to be a crewman aboard the comedy of errors called LCS.

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  5. timactual

    “My readers always bitch about the F-35 program, but the LCS fiasco is the real crime.”
    some of us bitch about both. We’re multitaskers (just like the LCS?).

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