US Navy litoral combat ships having engineering failures 10

[spsalso]

The Independence class can only go at high speeds on a nice day:

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...de-structural-defects-leading-to-hull-cracks/

The Freedom class is being scrapped. And it's not because they're old and worn out and there's a far better ship to replace them:

https://news.usni.org/2022/03/29/al...ships-in-commission-tapped-for-early-disposal

We can't leave these kids along for a minute!


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[Alistair_Heaton]

Here is an example of some world class ship construction done in the USA:

They were designed and modelled in Europe.

There was loads of work in Scotland done on them in about 97 I think.

Swedish Dutch British design team...

They were built in USA ship yards but there was issues with that because those boats are metric through and through. In the end I think they got them powered up and took them across to Europe for fitting out because all the pipe work was DIN metric as well.

I don't think anyone has repeated the exercise but I could be wrong.

 

[TugboatEng]

My understanding was that some construction was done in France because a hurricane wiped out the Florida shipyard.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

I don't know much about them apart from there was a extremely intelligent young naval architect lecturer who was involved at Strathclyde. The centre of steel excellence on the Clyde was also involved with the welding protocols. And I think Edinburgh or Aberdeen uni dynamics did some of the work on the engine vibration.

That guy who wrote your link is British qualified.

They had to be USA registered because they were for USA waters point to point without international transit legs. They weren't originally going to be built in the USA but then the required USA registration meant they had to be quite late on.

I am pretty certain they were completely metric boat design. Which must have caused major issues in a USA ship yard in the 90's

 

[JedClampett]

There's a thread I noticed here. The Captain of the Iowa when its turret exploded, killing 47 sailors, resigned soon after that, when the investigation was messed up. They tried to scapegoat one of the dead crewmen, but it was a bad investigation. Anyway, after that he, the captain of the Iowa, "floated around", but being well connected got a job with Lockheed Martin, on the Freedom Class Littoral Ship project. That project was a general disaster, but don't worry, he next started working for Fincantieri who had purchased Marinette Marine, who was building these ships.
Now this is all Wikipedia talking, but it sure seems interesting and coincidental.

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

Seems the royal navy has just taken possession of a new ship today. Commissioned and outfitted in the Netherlands.

And the Jack tars are extremely buzzed up that Basystems has had nothing to do with it.

 

[spsalso]

Appears to be the world's smallest container ship (2 x 40' or 2 x 20'):

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/new-experimental-ship-for-the-royal-navy-arrives-in-uk/

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[dik]

Basystems???

So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

BAE

 

[Alistair_Heaton]

It leads the world on stupidity with defense contracts.

Only reason why Boeing leads the world on financial screw up front is because the projects are bigger.

But stupidity BAE systems is world class.