Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Why is US Navy Retiring a 6-Year Old Ship?" video.

LCS were created in Obama times to fight pirates. Pirates are gone. New enemy is the Chinese. LCS cannot fight Chinese as they are not designed for such role at all. Even other navies looking to buy LCS are saying - well it is nice but we don't have pirates & these are no match for regular frigates or destroyers.
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@juris33 "The first littoral combat ship, USS Freedom, was commissioned on 8 November 2008 in Veteran's Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[4] The second ship, the trimaran USS Independence, was commissioned on 16 January 2010, in Mobile, Alabama." Trump started in 2017 so Obama in 2011. Certainly the idea was there before Obama but he was a President when almost all ships were approved and build. During his 8 years program was scaled back.
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