Littoral Combat Ships - Independence Class

[Little h]

Littoral Combat Ships - Independence Class

This thread may be considered as complimentary to the thread titled 'LCS by Austal' in the World Navies United States Navy forum.

Although having plenty supporters; the overall functionality of the ships that comprise this class is still questioned by critics. In this thread I will include a few variations that were easily observed when viewing images of the class online.

Nose Jobs; - some observations:-

LCS 2 USS Independence Defense.gov_News_Photo_090712-N-0000G-004 (3).jpg

LCS 4 USS_Coronado 170603-N-PD309-113 exercise_CARAT wiki (2).JPG

LCS 16 future USS Tulsa ce7a2rvxtyk01.jpg

LCS 14 AR-170529532 - fosters.com (2).jpg

Independence-class-LCS-photo-001 seaforces.org (2).jpg

My reading has led me to believe that it was the Freedom class variant that suffered from ingress of seawater through the hawsepipe, yet as can be seen above, the Independence class ships have had their share of nose work done to the central hawsepipe, bullring/bullnose feature.

[Little h]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)


(please double click on each attachment in order to read the text clearly and in focus)

Aviation Week Redeeming Freedom - Michael Fabey 1.png

Aviation Week Redeeming Freedom - Michael Fabey.png

Source; Aviation Week Redeeming Freedom: U.S. Navy Seeks to Renew Faith in LCS - Nov 30, 2012


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GAO-14-749 July 2014 page 7.png

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Source; United States Government Accountability OfficeReport to Congressional Committees GAO-14-749 July 2014

via Aviation Week U.S. Navy Aerospace Daily & Defense Report 7th November 2013.png

[Little h]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)



LCS-2 USS Independence - designed and built without Bridge Wings

2008

, LCS-2 uss Independence in drydock wiki 2008.jpg

2009 builders trials

, LCS 2 USS Independence Defense.gov_News_Photo_090712-N-0000G-004. (2)..jpg

2016 refit

, LCS-2 uss independence in floating drydock, San Diego, 2016... reddit byusverdrupian.jpg

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LCS 4 USS Coronado - also designed and built without Bridge Wings

2014 at sea with

LCS 4 USS Coronado underway in April 2014 wiki.JPG

2017 at sea with

170603-N-PD309-113_The_littoral_combat_ship_USS_Coronado_(LCS_4)_during_exercise_CARAT_in_Thailand_.JPG

[Little h]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)


SOLAS = Safety Of Lives At Sea


SOLAS Regulation 1 para 1 to 4

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SOLAS Regulation 1 MCA Guidance para 1 - 8

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SOLAS Regulation 1 MCA Guidance para 9 - 13

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SOLAS Regulation 1 MCA Guidance para 14 - 15

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late edit;

SOLAS Guidance on Chapter V - Safety of Navigation 2007 Revision

The revised Chapter V, Safety of Navigation, of the Annex to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS V) came into force on 1 July 2002.

The Regulations are implemented under UK legislation by The Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2002.

SOLAS Chapter V - Contents

Source; Maritime and Coastguard Agency

[Little h]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)


SOLAS = Safety Of Lives At Sea



SOLAS Regulation 22 Navigation Bridge Visibility

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SOLAS Regulation 22 para 1 - 4

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SOLAS Regulation 22 MCA Guidance para 1 - 12

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Navy Times 26 th April 2010 Philip Ewing

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[Little h]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)



LCS-2 USS Independence completed without bridge wings

LCS-4 USS Coronado completed without bridge wings

LCS-6 USS Jackson commissioned without bridge wings

LCS-8 USS Montgomery commissioned complete with bridge wings

LCS-10 USS Gabrielle Giffords commissioned without bridge wings June 10 2017

LCS-12 USS Omaha commissioned complete with bridge wings

LCS-14 USS Manchester commissioned complete with bridge wings

LCS-16 the future USS Tulsa completed without bridge wings

LCS-18 the future USS Charleston completed without bridge wings

LCS-20 the future USS Cincinnati completed with bridge wings (commissioning spring 2019)

LCS-22 the future USS Kansas City completed with bridge wings

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[Little h]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)

Well, much that preceeded this post on the subject of Bridge Wings required a lots of reading; but if that is not your bag then try this - the following attachment is derived from two images published on't internet.

On the left is a cropped image of LCS-4 USS Coronado - and on the right is a cropped image of LCS-2 USS Independence. The issue is that which is displayed on the right and indicated by the orange arrows - note that the flight deck safety net appears to overlap the port bridge wing, whilst the Coronado LCS-4 image indicates that the safety nets should be behind or obscured by the port bridge wing.

Image tampering???

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[jbryce1437]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)

Image tampering???


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It certainly looks like the image has been Photoshopped, quite poorly though. I suppose that is one way of modifying ships, at no expense

Jim

[Little h]

Bridge Wings; (some with - those without to be/being retrofitted)

Image tampering???

It certainly looks like the image has been Photoshopped, quite poorly though. I suppose that is one way of modifying ships, at no expense

Jim

Yep thought so Jim ... blatant piece of desktop retrofitting without dockyard assistance ... blatantly bad that is

[designeraccd]

The be$t use of these useless floating t___dz is as submerged reefs, which is what they will become within 10 minutes of combat starting....

They had no clear CONOPS before they were built, the so-called modules really don't work; and the USN is still searching for some mission they can do besides being targets, very expensive targets. DFO