There's been quite a bit of negative reporting on these littoral warships, but these negative views are short sighted. The Pentagon recognizes the huge influx of people into cities located in littoral zones, coast lines and river deltas. And these cities are concentrated in Asia, Central and South America, and Africa…

They littorally launched it. ;-)

The US boats are as good as anyone's (and probably better) in the open ocean. They just aren't built for this type of close to shore operation. The US operates on the assumption that P-3 and P-8 anti submarine planes, and various ASW helicopters would be enough to find and destroy anything that got close to our…

Considering we'll spend multiple millions of dollars on cruise missiles and other fancy, guided warheads, $350 million on a ship that will last for years seems downright affordable.

Reminds me of the Coneheads

Huh, then why did they lay the keel of the USS Detroit in Marinette WI. They don't lay keels in a specific spot unless they plan on building the ship there. Because you can't exactly move the keel once it was laid. Oh btw one of the Detroit's sisters the U.S.S. Fort Worth was also built there. Also if a ship is built…

What the hell is wrong with people? This literally has absolutely nothing to do with the United States. This is a suspected conflict between Sweden and Russia. Yet somehow, Americans still managed to get brought into the argument and blamed. It's pathetic.

not sure, maybe a Rolls?

This ship was nowhere near her angle of vanishing stability. It's probably well over 90 degrees. Wind alone can't really roll you past 90 degrees since the bits in the wind are now hidden from the wind by the rest of the ship. It takes huge waves to capsize a ship that size. Or internal problems, obviously.

been doing it that way for years idiots.

the LCS is a light helicopter carrier. thats all it is. its job is to quickly deploy and maintain a few helicopters in an area. the weapons systems mounted to the ship itself are essentially irrelevant (and you could make the argument that in a world of cheap cruise missile spam and ballistic anti ship missiles, this…

That ghost thing is sorta a joke. A writer that does not know defense did a big story on it like it was some secret super weapon and it went viral and everyone did a piece on it. I actually wrote about that thing in 2011! A stealth boat that is supposed to do within line of sight battle with swarms of fast boats?…

Sorry to hear that you don't like FA or that it detracts from your Jalopnik experience. I don't cross post anything, the editors do. FA has been wildly successful, I am sorry you don't dig it though. Nothing I can do there.

LOL. If this were an American ship - everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY - would be motherfucking it up one side and down the other, for using infused vinylester carbon fibre foam sandwich structure that goes up like a fuckin' tinderbox.

I beg to differ, limited conventional peer-state conflict will be the name of the game in the future. A post nuclear strategy is very much a reality when it comes to smaller territorial disputes

This looks like a pleasure yacht, not a warship.

The differences between an A-12 and an SR-71 are subtle, but the most noticeable is the A-12 is a single seat plane. They're also shorter and more pointed than an SR, but it's not really apparent unless they're side by side.

But really slow right?
I am assuming they can stop the rear prop and use the collective to tilt the blades as needed. Which probably is not fast, since they have the rear propeller for going fast.

That Eurocopter X3 would have some serious drawbacks on the battlefield. A quick in and out for the troops would be slightly complicated by having a massive propeller right next to the door. And what if one of them gets knocked out? At least the S-97 has counterrotating main rotors so if it lost the tail…

I think the most important thing to take from all this is actually quite simple: Does this mean Notch will get back to making Psychonauts 2 happen?