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LCS-8, barely a week in commission, suffers engineering casualty.

Via USNI News: THE PENTAGON — Littoral Combat Ship USS Montgomery (LCS-8) suffered at least one engineering casualty during a transit in the Gulf of Mexico and is heading to Florida for repairs, two defense officials told USNI News on Friday. Sometime on Thursday, the Independence-class ship was bound for the Panama Canal when Montgomery…

Via USNI News:

THE PENTAGON — Littoral Combat Ship USS Montgomery (LCS-8) suffered at least one engineering casualty during a transit in the Gulf of Mexico and is heading to Florida for repairs, two defense officials told USNI News on Friday.

Sometime on Thursday, the Independence-class ship was bound for the Panama Canal when Montgomery suffered the engineering failure. Now the ship is headed to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba under its own power but under propulsion restrictions before returning to Naval Station Mayport, Fla. for repairs, the officials confirmed to USNI News.

Both variants sure seem to be having a string of bad luck.  On the other hand, sooner or later, they’ll make good targets for the annual SINKEX during RIMPAC.

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Responses to “LCS-8, barely a week in commission, suffers engineering casualty.”

  1. KenH

    Can’t wait to see what Sal has to say about this one….

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  2. NaCly Dog

    You’d have to have a heart of stone not to commiserate with the CHENG and the snipes.
    May the design issues fade away with time. The new employment plan is closer to reality than the past plans.

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  3. Stormy

    Luck suggests some unforeseen or unexpected occurrence, an event outside the normal probability distribution. Alas, for LCS, this appears normative.

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  4. ron snyder

    @KenH, we already know what Laz will say….

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  5. KenH

    Yeah . One wonders if he gets paid by the word to shill for the manufacturers…

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  6. LT Rusty

    I have no idea who pays his salary, but apparently he’s a teacher somewhere. Western Civilization.

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  7. KenH

    Sal has the Post on the floating disasters today
    Laz, apparently is taking his laptop and leaving in a huff, saying he can’t change the minds of all us meanies, so there!
    Says we are all “too negative”
    Great googly moogly, talk about target-fixation….

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