Remember That $584 Million Dollar USS Freedom? It's Broke.

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.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.

(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: The USS Freedom is nothing more than another Lockheed Martin scam.

The original Deepwater program called for these things to be built for around $200 million dollars a pop. LCS #1 = $584 million dollars. LCS #2 = $704 million dollars.

At 292% over estimated cost we have a broken ship from Lockheed Martin. Way to rip off the taxpayers, dudes.



Gas turbine engine on LCS Freedom breaks
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Sep 23, 2010 20:58:23 EDT

A high-speed gas turbine engine on board the Navy’s first Littoral Combat Ship broke earlier this month and will need to be replaced, but officials don’t expect the mishap to affect the ship’s testing schedule.