carr wrote:
No, no, no! Well, maybe, maybe, maybe. Well, yes, yes, yes.
Oh! Nice!
carr wrote:
It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
Yeah, I guess you're right. The Street Fighter is not the right category to fit the 1990s modernized Gearing in. The idea was to actually fill the bulk of mission requirements originally postulated for LCS.
carr wrote:
Given that a modernized Gearing can't be a Streetfighter (300-1000 t, $80M, swarming), what do you want it to do? Maybe, maybe, maybe!
This would also be an off-the-shelf type of project as well. The mission would be to support mine sweeps, provide counter battery fire, ASuW, NSFS, UAV operations, NSW staging and support, etc
I imagine 2-3 hulls with Mk42 5"/54caliber guns pulled off decommissioned ships replacing the 5"/38 caliber twin mounts, 2-3 CIWS, SLQ-32 ECM, SPS-49, SPQ-9A, TAS-23, SRBOC chaff launchers, glide scope, etc.
This would be an interesting group of ships in order to test the idea of LCS before going all in like the Navy did.