Eric Bender photographed the USS Nantucket, docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard today. The Nantucket is a $500-million "littoral combat ship," aimed at close-to-shore operations, but which have been plagued with problems.
The Nantucket will be formally commissioned here a week from Sunday.
Bender adds:
The Nantucket's crew stood by for the Constitution's daily 8am cannon and then toured the WW2 destroyer Cassin Young.
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Lotta Time in Port For Those Ships
By monkeynaut
Sat, 11/09/2024 - 5:51pm
Yeah, the LCS program is a pretty big boondoggle. ProPublica did a good deep dive on this in 2023: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-...
Their cousins, the LPD class, aren't much better. My best friend spent much of his navy career doinking around in port while his "finished" ship underwent additional years of service to get it to an actually usable state.
Truth be told..
By Friartuck
Sat, 11/09/2024 - 7:10pm
I was on an Oliver Hazard Perry class FFG myself and hardly a week went by without a fire, major systems outage, etc.
At the same time, we were far from littoral, in fact, our mission was to deflect incoming surface, air, sub fire intended for the aircraft carrier to whom we were assigned. Today, my former ship is part of the Turkish Navy.
Thank you
By Iwuzzn'tthere
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 8:19am
for your service, Friartuck.
Cyberboat?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 7:44pm
Is this a new Cyberboat?
Isn't the commission ceremony
By HighGuard
Sat, 11/09/2024 - 7:57pm
Isn't the commission ceremony Saturday the 16th
I hope they come back
By deselby
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 7:59am
for their decommissioning in two years. They're building and getting rid of those ships at the same time, what a scam.
Don't blame me
By Sator
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 11:17am
I voted for Bill the Cat
ACK
By MassMouse
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 6:26pm
Pfffft
Not so, this has nothing to
By anon
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 8:01am
Not so, this has nothing to do with why it's still called a navy yard. Do a little research.
Yeah, yeah, I know why it's called the Navy Yard
By adamg
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 12:37pm
And why the Raymond L Flynn Marine Park is no longer called the army base.
I was being a little flippant, sorry.
The ships and our management
By Frelmont
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 10:27am
The ships and our management of them is evolving and we’re learning the lessons now instead of later.
Evidently you know little of
By anon
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 5:32pm
Evidently you know little of the the LCS (Little Crappy Ship) and its history.
The truth is we never learn
By anon
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 2:16pm
The truth is we never learn the lesson, the proof is in LCS program.
ooh look
By anon
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 4:18pm
a Cybertruck
Getting ready to vaca in China?
By Daan
Sun, 11/10/2024 - 4:31pm
The US military will not need ships that are more than floating Potemkin Villages under Voldermort. He will use them to pretend to be tough. But he has too much money tied up in Chinese companies. Given that money and wealth are his Gods he will not threaten those sources of income.
But then the third God that he worships, power, may wage war with the other Gods. Who will win?
One reasonable guess is that he actually imposes tariffs (given his habit of saying anything, often with not intention to follow through), the tariffs will not be on the industries where he has investments. According to CNN that is 144 companies in 25 nations. But since he continues to hide his taxes (at least he didn't play the game of claiming they were under audit) there may be more businesses that feed his insatiable maw.
So when Communist China invades Taiwan will Trump respond with ships that are flawed, failing and sure to telegraph to the PRC, "Taiwan's all your's baby!"
Tmurp won't go to war
By necturus
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 12:58pm
He's a coward.
He's also so inept that he couldn't even organize his military parade on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Mark my words: eastern Europe will be back under Russian influence by the end of his term.
Huh huh huh
By Guanden Villenge
Mon, 11/11/2024 - 12:19pm
The ship named Nantucket works in the (c)littoral zone. Huh huh huh