Cracks discovered in inaugural LCS, Freedom

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: We're talking about $584 million dollars 'worth' of ship here. :(





Cracks discovered in inaugural LCS, Freedom
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Mar 18, 2011 16:06:02 EDT

NAVSEA and Lockheed Martin, the ship’s prime contractor, are reviewing the ship’s design, construction drawings and welding procedures to determine what caused the hull crack. It is not yet clear, NAVSEA said, whether the problem is due to a design flaw or faulty construction techniques.

[old mark]

1. K&R

[leveymg]

2. Back to the 'ol drawing boards for the world's most expensive ski boat.

Cheez-itz

[bahrbearian]

3. Cool ship , just another waste of money though.

USS Freedom (LCS 1), the lead ship of the Freedom class of Littoral combat ships (LCS), is the third vessel of the United States Navy to be so named. She is the design competitor produced by the Lockheed Martin consortium, in competition with the General Dynamics-designed USS Independence. She was officially accepted by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast on behalf of the US Navy from the Lockheed Martin/Marinette Marine/Gibbs and Cox team in Marinette, WI on 18 September 2008.<11>

She is designed for a variety of missions in shallow waters, capable against submarines and ships, as well as minesweeping and humanitarian relief. The ship is a semi-planing monohull design capable of over 45 knots (83 km/h; 52 mph).

USS Freedom (LCS 1), the lead ship of the Freedom class of Littoral combat ships (LCS), is the third vessel of the United States Navy to be so named. She is the design competitor produced by the Lockheed Martin consortium, in competition with the General Dynamics-designed USS Independence. She was officially accepted by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding Gulf Coast on behalf of the US Navy from the Lockheed Martin/Marinette Marine/Gibbs and Cox team in Marinette, WI on 18 September 2008.<11>

She is designed for a variety of missions in shallow waters, capable against submarines and ships, as well as minesweeping and humanitarian relief. The ship is a semi-planing monohull design capable of over 45 knots (83 km/h; 52 mph).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Freedom_(LCS-1)

[1776Forever]

4. Unhappycamper I couldn't agree more about the cost compared to quality. You only have to look at

the helicopter problems in Iraq to know that!

By the way I also saw your comment on Fair Use - I found this and it is a good article to refer to:

Fair Use vs. Copyright Infringement: Quoting Material on the Internet
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 by Jennifer King - Lawyers.com

http://www.lawyers.com/our-blog/archives/641-Fair-Use-vs.-Copyright-Infringement-Quoting-Material-on-the-Internet.html

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Fair Use Defined
US law does allow people to use copyrighted material in limited instances without the author's permission. This is known as fair use.

According to Wikipedia:

Fair use, a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work, is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test.(Savvy readers will realize that not only is this a definition of fair use, but in quoting Wikipedia in this way, it's also an example of fair use.)

(more at link)

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I would like to hear more on comments about this issue. Thanks for bringing it up.