<p>This is the REAL LCS, not that ship which is really a frigate, but was given a Beltway Bullshit name by historically minded idiots who like to FUBAR things. http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/07/fullbore-friday_18.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2005/07/uss-san-antonio-lpd-17-fiasco-no.html That class of ship whose main armament is a 57 mm gun should have its name changed, have a 5 inch gun (perhaps a twin mount) in the A position instead of a pop gun, and have some other things done to this type of frigate. http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2005/09/time-to-play-bullshit-bingo.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/03/lcs-broth-and-its-cooks.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/03/five-inch-friday.html http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/24/1048354546906.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/03/tiffany-navy-lcs-chapter.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/04/lcs-2-gets-big-ship-name.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/05/spreading-ship-naming-head-scratching.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/06/lockheed-lcs-concept-is-dumb-idea.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/06/phestival-of-phuture-phlee_114979118619421689.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/07/seabasing-nothing-new-under-sun.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/08/ffig-lovers-lament.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/08/fundamental-failures.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2006/08/painful-to-read.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/02/scuttling-our-fleet.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/02/dote-to-navy-you-have-no-clothes.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/02/more-people-learn-what-lcs-means.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/03/lexington-on-lcs.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/04/fullbore-friday.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/04/flash-lcs-3-cancelled-flash.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/11/no-more-lcs-4.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/11/march-to-low-200s.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2007/12/asw-with-lcs-and.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/01/littoral-combat-this-is-littoral-combat.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/04/nyt-on-lcs.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/04/procurement-holiday-blowback.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/07/fullbore-friday_18.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/08/sids-lcs-seminar.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/08/cots-milspec-and-ils-trainwreck.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/10/fullbore-friday-attn-bay-area-readers.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-jos-leave-in-frustration.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/12/when-did-we-lose-our-rudder.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/02/ill-have-mine-with-no-bacon-please.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/02/viable-alternative-to-lcs.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/03/navsea-loses-even-more-credibility.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/05/when-monkeys-fly-out-of-my-svtt.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/05/ummm-because-lcs-isnt-frigate.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/06/lcs-parade-of-false-horizons.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/06/early-lcs-deployment-or-cheesy-yet.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/06/lcs-parade-of-false-horizons.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/08/phibian-on-congressional-staff.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/08/seduced-by-net.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/10/ford-not-ferrari-naw.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/11/lcs-truth-trumps-ppt.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/11/ok-this-lcs-i-will-take.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/11/lcss-bottom-5.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/12/beers-with-don.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-has-struck-most-usn-ships-in-50.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/01/unfortunate-choice-of-words.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/01/reforming-confederate-navy.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/01/fullbore-friday_29.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/02/lcs-1-deploys-on-wave-of-self-parody.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/03/gao-on-lcs.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/03/byron-youre-buying-beer.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/03/only-thing-left-is-good-yardarm.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/04/lcs-small-nimble-and-stealthy.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/06/fullbore-friday_25.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/09/gao-owes-us-beer.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/09/because-were-run-by-small-minded.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/11/return-to-asuw.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2010/12/lcs-it-makes-you-noggn-noggl.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/01/slow-staggering-death-of-lcs-continues.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/01/lcs-asuw-from-tragedy-to-farce.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/03/lcs-funny-of-day.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/04/launch-ready-speech-writer.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/05/fullbore-friday.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/05/lcs-2-i-or-just-fri-speculation.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/05/jhsv-by-any-other-name.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/05/fullbore-friday_20.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/06/pentagon-calls-lcs-unreasonably.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-does-disney-think-of-lcs-2.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/06/can-this-be-operationalized.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/06/lcs-no-need-for-1000-words.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/07/ongoing-false-spin-about-lcs.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/07/those-worthless-ohp-frigates.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/08/actual-littoral-combat.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/08/cno-and-dangers-of-living-in-ppt-world.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/08/lcs-trying-to-make-it-work.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/08/lcs-primer.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/08/with-lcs-we-have-officially-become.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/09/lcs-wtf-of-week.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-think-this-is-more-what-they-had-in.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2011/11/lcs-asuw-farce-made-flesh.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/01/lcs-global-force-for-confusion.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/01/potemkin-lcs-deployment-again.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/01/potomac-flotilla-ppt-pom-pom.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/02/no-confidence-in-secnav.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/04/crs-lcs-april-2012-paper.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/04/lcs-manning-realty-oops.html http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/-modularity-the-littoral-combat-ship-and-the-future-of-the-us-navy http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/23/engine-goes-bad-new-san-diego-warship/ http://flattopshistorywarpolitics.yuku.com/topic/1056/LCS-Troubles-The-Littoral-Combat-Ships-Under-Fire http://defensetech.org/2010/03/30/gao-flags-lcs-missile-problems/ http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/navy-sinks-lcs-4-construction-04134/ http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=3990657 http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/07/plenty-of-blame-to-go-around-for-disappearing-warship http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/08/future-warship-ran-aground/all/1 http://blog.usni.org/2010/07/06/in-praise-of-attrition-multi-mission/ http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/8-16373.aspx http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120702/DEFREG02/307020001/U-S-Navy-Boosting-LCS-Core-Crew-Up-50-? odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/07/lcs-manning-goes-salamander.html http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120723/DEFREG02/307230006/Maintenance-Hurdles-Mount-New-USN-Ship? odyssey=nav%7Chead http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/07/lcs-it-never-fails-to-fail.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-jos-leave-in-frustration.html http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2008/01/littoral-combat-this-is-littoral-combat.html The same FUBARs who FUBARed a type of ship which should be called a frigate also call a ship armed with cruiser size 6.1 inch guns (a gun larger than what was aboard our light cruisers) a “destroyer”, FUBARed the hull numbering system in the so called littoral combat ships and the LHAs, and FUBARed Coast Guard terminology (in regards to the WHECs and WMECs). The 87 square miles surrounded by reality needs a severe house cleaning and have in it, especially at the top position, someone who understands history, nomenclature, and tradition, which has been lacking there for many, many years. Mike McCullough</p>