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Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge)Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy's idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet. Inspired by successful
A hastily-developed shipbuilding plan rushed out near the end of the Trump Administration set a very modest goal of a 500-ship Navy, but it would achieve that number at a snail's pace where the fleet would not reach 500 ships until 2045. We simply can't wait 25 years. By Christopher Lehman Sr. on January 27, 2021 at 6:55 PM