Why is the Littoral Combat Ship with strong sci fi performance being used as scrap metal by the US N

I don't know how the powerful American Littoral Combat Ship has become a piece of scrap metal in the eyes of the world, and most people are skeptical and negative about the U.S. Navy's two-stage Littoral Combat Ships. The shortcomings of the ship's capacity should not be infinitely magnified because of its own positioning and changes in the current combat situation of the ship, and its ability has been questioned. It can be said that the Littoral Combat Ship has its own unique position in the US naval system, although it is somewhat unbearable to be "useful", but it can be said that it can also be used as a ship type, and the US Navy has been using it all the time, and it is also very easy to use, but since the beginning of construction, there have been constant controversies with frigates.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992, all the battleships of the US Navy were decommissioned without the threat of a strong opponent. At this time, the U.S. Navy's operational focus has been developed from a decisive battle in the oceans and the seizure of sea supremacy to a more cutting-edge land attack, support for the Marine Corps, and land operations. Therefore, it is necessary to build a small, fast, operable, and relatively inexpensive littoral combat ship, whose tasks include anti-submarine, anti-mine, anti-surface ships, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, homeland defense, maritime interception, special operations, and logistics support.

The U.S. Navy initially had an arsenal ship (DD-21 project) design, and the ship's displacement requirements should be 10,000 to 12,000 tons, and later increased to 15,000 to 18,000 tons. And according to the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer crew 30% of the configuration, that is, 95 people, up to 150 people, as well as modular design, reduce the radar reflection cross-sectional area to mask infrared, electromagnetic, sound and other signal characteristics and other technical indicators. So in 2001, under the leadership of Ingalls Shipbuilding Company, which was responsible for the research and development bidding, and the joint development of Bath Steel, Loma, General Motors, Microsoft and other companies, the design concept of the Littoral Combat Ship project was completed.

Due to the research and judgment of the US Department of Defense, Congress and the two US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, the arsenal ship project has been cut and the design of the ship that can carry out offshore infiltration operations, strike at enemy ships, expel the opponent's ships, and adapt to anti-terrorism coastal operations has been reformulated. Supporting missions such as landings, the displacement should be around 500,600 tons, the crew should be 6,800 people, etc., and finally the success of the Loma Sea Blade and the universal trimaran program, which is also known for its miscellaneous work Littoral Combat Ship (LCS(X) project), which has been criticized for its damage control or survivability and the difference between frigates.

There is no practical value. Although the Littoral Combat Ship has a sci-fi appearance, its cost is too high, and the technology is immature, and it is prone to various failures, which is not conducive to self-mission.

Because this kind of battleship is only suitable for torture. The material of the battleship is very fragile and does not have enough firepower to withstand the demands of high-intensity naval warfare.

It's not that it's not advanced, like Zumwalt, it's the product of the operational concept of breaking away from the aircraft carrier system, and the current naval war is inseparable from the aircraft carrier, and there is no need to build two systems.

Because the U.S. military found that this kind of aircraft carrier did not have any special practicality, it was abandoned.

<> "A new type of sci-fi battleship, a littoral combat ship with a definite appearance.

Due to the change in the international situation, the US Navy has gradually transformed its military strategic forces in the depths of the sea into offshore waters, so the US military has developed the DD (X) plan, the CG (X) plan and the LCS plan, among which the DD (X) plan has developed the "Zumwalt-class destroyer". The CG(X) program was cancelled back in 2011 due to various reasons that led to the non-establishment of the program. And the last LCS program is to say the "Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship".

Its real name is - littoral combat ship.

After the end of the Cold War, due to the disintegration of the Soviet superpower, the United States became the world's only superpower, and it was difficult for any other country to pose a substantial threat to it.

Its role is to deal with all kinds of possible resistance in the coastal areas of the hostile country, including mines, etc., therefore, its combat effectiveness is not comparable to those ordinary frigates, firepower is not up to them, however, other aspects of the use of many top technologies, such as the hull surface of the stealth paint, the hull of the hull itself, etc. There are two different types of Littoral Combat Ships planned to be built about 30 units, namely the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ships of Lockheed Martin and the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships produced by General Dynamics.

The Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship is different from other ordinary combat ships, the biggest difference in appearance is that it adopts a trimaran design style, in order to improve the stealth ability of the whole ship, the external superstructure of the Littoral Combat Ship adopts the inward cambering treatment, which can make the hull of the Littoral Combat Ship greatly improve the stealth effect. In terms of hull structure, the length of the Littoral Combat Ship's hull has been strengthened, and it looks like an alien black technology that is provocative.

The appearance has indeed attracted the attention of many people, but it also has its fatal weakness, such as the warship's air defense capability is super poor, once discovered, it is facing the danger of scrapping, and the cost of the littoral combat ship is also extremely expensive, in terms of foreign sales, it has reached a high cost of more than 10 billion US dollars. In summary, there are advantages and disadvantages to the Littoral Combat Ship, but the military scientific research technology accumulated on this warship is also of great significance to the development of the country's navy.

However, in high-intensity operations, it is difficult for Littoral Combat Ships to survive, so although Loma continues to tout his products, the positioning of Littoral Combat Ships as a major failure of the US military will not change, and the more money the Americans spend on Littoral Combat Ships, the greater their losses.

<> "The U.S. Littoral Combat Ship Was Forced to Stop Production?

The strength of the U.S. Navy is undoubted, but with the development of other powers, their position has also suffered a lot of pressure, and it is precisely because of this that the direction of the development of the U.S. Navy seems to have changed somewhat over the years.

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Recently, there has been news that the United States plans to terminate the subsequent construction of four littoral combat ships, including two each of the "Independence" class and the "Freedom" class, and when this plan is really determined, it may have a great impact on the development of the US Navy.

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In fact, for the current US Navy, the development of a high-cost equipment is already a very big pressure, and the cost of the Littoral Combat Ship is indeed high, because of its high technical level, so the cost will also increase, in addition, the reliability of this type of ship is not satisfactory, in this regard, it is normal for the United States to choose to abandon this type of ship. It is worth noting that, in addition to the problems of the ships themselves, the development of other powers is also an important reason for the US side to make such a decision.

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It is understood that the Littoral Combat Ship is the first design of the next generation of surface warships of the US Navy, which can be reconfigured according to different combat roles, including anti-submarine, anti-ship, reconnaissance and special operations, etc., it can be seen that the role of this type of ship is very extensive, and compared with other ships at this stage, the design of this type of ship is still very avant-garde.

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It's just that because in the design of this kind of ship, the state of the US Navy is "invincible", if you want to put it in the last century, this type of ship will definitely be able to play a very obvious role, but now the situation has changed dramatically, because the development speed of other countries has been getting faster and faster, especially the naval strength of China and Russia has been very obvious progress, in this case, the United States littoral combat ships have no sense of existence at all, And in a way, this kind of ship has even become a big burden for the US Navy, so it is only a matter of time before its construction program is terminated.