Frigate Manning and Maintenance

For years, now, the Navy has been complaining that manpower was too costly and, indeed, the Navy embarked on an unwise, misguide…

Spin The LCS

You know what “spin” is, right?  In case you’re not familiar with the word, it means to present a piece of information in the bes…

Nice To Meet You, Wouldn't Want To Be You

Nice to meet you, wouldn’t want to be you!  That’s how Navy officers must be looking at prospective LCS commands these days.  LCS…

LCS Readiness

Over at his blog, Cdr. Salamander poses the question “If we had to go to war, exactly what would the LCS we've commissioned o…

Navy Surrenders

Since the day the first LCS was announced, observers have analyzed the fundamental LCS concept and found it to be badly flawed.  …

LCS Engineering Review

The Navy ordered an engineering stand down for all LCS ships after the fourth major engineering casualty in the last year and, sp…

Exploring Distributed Lethality

As regular readers know, ComNavOps has not been a fan of the Navy’s distributed lethality concept.  In its original, articulated …

Two More LCS Ships Break Down

Now this is just getting silly.  I didn’t report on the LCS program’s latest failure, the engineering breakdown of USS Freedom wh…

LCS Lube Oil

You've probably read that the USS Fort Worth, LCS-3, has broken down in Singapore and is idled indefinitely pending repairs. …

LCS Deployment Support Contract

Here’s an interesting contract related to the LCS. “Lockheed Martin Corp, Baltimore, Maryland, is being awarded an $8,676,460 mod…

Fort Worth's Successful(?) Deployment

Here’s an example of why it is so important to dig into the Navy’s endless stream of glowingly effusive reports about the latest …

LCS Operating Costs - Follow Up

Here’s a follow up note about the LCS operating costs.   The LCS was sold, in large part, as a lower operating cost vessel whose …