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LCS Fort Worth Completes
Test as Congress Cools on
Program

Navy officials told reporters Thursday the third Littoral Combat Ship recently completed a successful operational evaluation of its surface warfare technologies days after Congress slowed down the production rate for the vessel. The USS Fort Worth, the Navy's third LCS, engaged in scenarios involving swarms of small boats, engagements with its 57mm gun, and search and seizure exercises, said Rear Adm. John Ailes, Program Executive Officer, LCS. "We destroyed all the targets and the crew's performance was excellent. It was a great event and we are pleased with all facets of the surface warfare mission package," Ailes told Military"‹.com in an interview. The House Armed Services Committee Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee has proposed legislation that slows the rate of purchase for the LCS from three to two per year. The subcommittee supports the LCS program and the development of a new small surface combatant, but priorities such as refueling the USS George Washington and ensuring that the Navy can operate an 11-carrier fleet took precedence in the budget, said a congressional staffer close to the subcommittee. The mark up is the latest in a series of setbacks for the controversial LCS program, which was truncated from 52 ships down to 32 by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in January of this year.
Formal results and grades from the commander for the operational test that took place at the Navy's Point Mugu test range in California are expected within 90 days, Ailes added. The operational evaluation was designed to further develop the LCS' increment 2 of its surface warfare mission package.


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LCS5 Gets New Waterjets

The Navy's fifth Littoral Combat Ship is the first vessel to receive new waterjets engineered to improve propulsion and fuel efficiency, service officials said. "The fuel efficiency that we derive is incredibly impressive. We're not talking about one or two percentages – we're talking about 10 percent improvement in efficiency from the waterjet," Rear Adm. Mathew Klunder, Chief of Naval Research told members of the Senate Appropriations Committee's Defense Subcommittee May 14. Now installed on the USS Milwaukee, or LCS 5, the new waterjets provide improved performance compared to previous waterjet models, said Ki- Han Kim, Office of Naval Research program officer, Sea Warfare and Weapons Division. "Advancements in waterjet technology will reduce operational maintenance costs and improve availability for ships to deliver mission results," Kim added in a written statement. "The waterjets deliver the same top speed and efficiency as existing waterjets on LCS 1 and LCS 3, but with reduced noise and vibration, reduced life- cycle costs, improved maintainability, increased availability and potentially improved efficiency at lower speeds." The waterjets, developed from 2006 through 2011, improve what's called cavitation performance, the process of creating partial vacuums in a liquid. "The new waterjets benefit from an improved hydrodynamic design architecture that reduces the size of the waterjet and the damaging effects of cavitation through the use of improved impeller blade design techniques, while maintaining a high propulsive efficiency," Kim said.


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inside of the LCS

 

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U.S. GAO - Littoral Combat Ship: Additional Testing and Improved Weight Management Needed Prior to Further Investments

 

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Lockheed Offers Navy New LCS Variant

Lockheed Martin is offering the Navy a slightly heavier, technologically re-configured multi-warfare variant of the Littoral Combat Ship that has added survivability features such as built in vertical launch tubes and a stronger radar. It is part of Lockheed's submission to the Navy's Small Surface Combatant Task Force's, or SSCTF, solicitation asking industry to come up with specs and designs for a new multi-mission surface ship engineered to address and correct some of the problems with the LCS. Lockheed's offering, which is based on their international variant of the LCS, is designed to engineer certain technologies into the hull itself, such as sonar. This approach is intended to prevent the need to swap out "mission packages" or sets of technologies as is currently the case with the LCS. "We took the 118-meter hull and turned it into more of a multi- warfare platform. Multi-warfare means you have anti-submarine warfare capability built into the hull along with surface and anti- air capability," said Joe North, vice president of Littoral Ship Systems, Lockheed Martin. "It is basically putting everything in the hull that allows you to not have to swap out mission packages – and perform those missions with a single ship." The new ship design weighs 3,600 tons which is slightly more than the current LCS weight of 3,400 tons, North said.


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Lockheed Offers Navy New LCS Variant

 

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Second US LCS to arrive in Asia end of 2014 - News - Shephard

 

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TRS-4D radar to equip Freedom Variant LCS

The US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) programme's adaptable Freedom variant ships will be equipped with the Airbus Defense and Space (D&S) TRS-4D naval radar, it was announced on 28 October. Beginning with LCS 17, the TRS-4D radar will provide advanced surveillance, target acquisition, self-defence, gunfire support and aircraft control capabilities. TRS-4D is a rotating version of the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) fixed panel TRS-4D radar going aboard the German F-125 class ships. It combines multiple capabilities in a single, reliable radar to quickly generate target tracks, and is programmable to detect smaller targets with greater accuracy and faster track generation to increase ships' reaction time. Mike Cosentino, president, Airbus D&S, said: 'Superior performance and adaptability for the future are key characteristics of the TRS-4D radar. It supports LCS to affordably meet current threats and can be adapted to change over the service life of the ship. Its characteristics are an excellent match for the environments LCS will face.' The radars will be supplied through the Freedom variant LCS prime contractor Lockheed Martin.
TRS-4D radar to equip Freedom Variant LCS - News - Shephard

 

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Longbow Missile Scores 7:1 Against Fast Attack Boat Swarm