Decommissioned

[Jolly]

https://gcaptain.com/navy-decommissions-2010-built-littoral-combat-ship-uss-independence/

[George K]

Hasn't the LCS program been pretty much a disaster?

[Jolly]

Pretty much.

The ships couldn't operate in contested waters, because they couldn't take battle damage and if they did, the crews weren't large enough to try to keep the ship afloat. The envisioned missile system was a bust. The ships cost way too much for the combat capabilities.

We could have built corvettes much cheaper and been better off.