It must have passed, they are up now. All but two were down for most of a day though. I looked on two computers at two different locations. Crap happens, glad to see I them up so I can continue on my drawing!
The allied frigate that matches the LCS acquisition requirements almost exactly and is in the cost range we wanted is the Absalon-class. I would prefer we abandon the stupid and useless flex deck requirement (for vehicles, reconfigurable spaces are fine) altogether but if it must stay this ship did ...
same price..... is that keeping inflation in mind? in addition, over the perry, the LCS has the mission modules, a lot better brown water performance (the USN has burkes for blue water, has it not) and with the lots and lots of aegis ships to cover them a bit, why would you give them the radars and...
Yeah but that program included a standard missile loadout, a CIWS, sonar, torpedoes, far better blue water performance, far more endurance, air search radars (for the SMs), etc.
One thing I would like to suggest is that you look at the newer 76mm mounts in place of the 57mm gun. There are some indications and some RUMINT that the Mk110 doesn't quite work as well as the marketing would indicate, most notably in that the first two Zummwalts (which have huge margins*) lost th...
http://i.imgur.com/tA920ih.png An in progress missile system I am working on. The launcher is designed to shoot any size 4 standard configuration missile. It consists of a magnetic rail launcher fed from a double carousel magazine encased in an armored drum. The magazine can hold twenty four missil...