SHOCKED: US Navy Plans to Have 66 Littoral Combat Ship

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The Navy Plans to Have 66 Littoral Combat Ship Crews in 5 Years.

The U.S. Navy is trying hard to deploy more of its Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), aiming finally to make use of a controversial class of vessel that has suffered a long series of conceptual, design and mechanical failures.

Vice Adm. Richard Brown told USNI News reporter Megan Eckstein that the Navy within five years could have nearly as many deployable LCS crews (66) as it does deployable destroyer crews (68)

“While the LCS program won’t rival [destroyers] in terms of percentage of manpower – the LCS has a much smaller crew – the LCS’s much higher operational availability means it’s conceivable that as many LCSs may be on deployments as destroyers at any given time,” Eckstein wrote.

Any one of the Navy’s planned LCSs, in theory, could remain forward-deployed for two years at a time while separate crews rotate on and off the ship. The Navy’s destroyers each have just one crew.