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US Navy Solicits Industry Solutions for a More Capable Frigate
Beyond their smaller crew capacity, the problem with the existing LCS hulls is that it is unclear whether they are large enough to effectively accommodate these additional weapons systems. This is why the analysts behind one of the most talked-about proposals for the Navy’s future fleet design from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments advocated a frigate of 4000-5000 tons, significantly larger than the 3000 ton LCSs.
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Danes Tout $340M Stanflex Frigate for US Navy – But What’s Real Cost?
Bryan Clark was unconvinced. “The Iver Huitfeldt uses mostly commercial components that may not be rated for the run time” — the sheer wear and tear of long deployments — “and potential effects of (battle) damage that US ships are expected to experience,” he told me.
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House Bill’s Defense Fund Faces Tough Odds in Senate
The fund "reflects an unusual willingness by Congress to give up some of their oversight prerogatives in favor of giving DOD more funding now," said Katherine Blakeley of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
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SECNAV nominee supports studying small aircraft carriers to outfit future fleet
The Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the fiscal year 2018 defense policy bill directs the Navy to begin designing a smaller carrier. Three entities conducted recent Navy force structure assessments: the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, the Mitre Corp. and the Navy's assessment division in the office of the chief of naval operations (N81), all of which recommended the service add smaller aircraft carriers to its future fleet.
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Navy Steers Well Away from An LCS Frigate
The RFI implies the Navy is still concerned about the cost of the new ship and perhaps wants to use the FFG(X) as something other than a traditional frigate.
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Life support: The Navy’s struggle to define a LCS bare minimum
In the meantime, the Navy has maintained that it needs at least 52 small surface combatants, ultimately made up mostly of littoral combat ships, to do security cooperation exercises with allies and the low-end missions the LCS was purchased for in the first place, said Bryan Clark, a retired submariner and analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.