Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "8 Things You Need to Know About the Navy’s Failed Multibillion-Dollar Littoral Combat Ship Program" video.

  1. The brass have exactly what they enabled.
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  2. Of course because they have sufficient electrical power to power networked sensor and weapons systems. Ukraine is like the Iran-Iraq war, primitive forces bashing each other because neither prepared well.
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  3. There is no excuse for making OBVIOUS mistakes then repeating them against repeated examples of failure. Modern war doesn't leave time to fix screwups....unless casualties don't matter. Sailors will die because of Navy incompetence.
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  4. The US Navy demonstrates decades of gross institutional incompetence that would not have been tolerated during say the early Cold War. GAO should place agents in all the armed forces since they proved they cannot be trusted to police themselves or to tell the truth unless cornered. The end of military ethics, heavily corroded during GWOT, is a senior leadership failure of monumental proportions that leadership can never afford to admit for personal career reasons. (The USAF teaches about Billy Mitchell because he tubed his career unrequited, not as an example to inspire other potential martyrs.) The American public permit this because they're mostly (Sal being a noble outlier!) indifferent to civic duty. The American public need to grow up and stop worshiping the military and trusting the armed forces to be competent because ALL humans require TEAM oversight. Public neglect costs lives in war. Veterans do not hallucinate the sun shines out our posteriors and no one else should either. Modular ships can at best only do one thing at a time and the other modules do NOTHING in port. That this idea was not instantly scorned is degenerate. No one will suffer a career hit for such obvious idiocy. The Navy gets away with no oversight because like the rest of DoD no competent civilians OUTSIDE THE SYSTEM exist to ride herd on them. Failure is inexcusable but one is punished because the US armed forces are a self-licking ice cream cone. They failed in A-stan (and lied about it for two decades). They generated a Pyrrhic victory in Iraq. They cannot manage AFV or Naval procurement and aren't very good at aircraft. This is because there is no cost to those in charge for screwing the proverbial pooch.
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  5. The public will just elect different idiots because the public don't know how to run complex programs (either). The average voter is incompetent to participate in a democratic Republic.
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  6. Too bad it's not armor...
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  7. Combat aircraft exist to put warheads on foreheads. The less meat in cockpits the better because UAS don't require CSAR or an enormously expensive training and replacement manned aircraft training pipeline.
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  8. Also key is that modules require interfaces integrated systems do not, and all that extra complexity is a weight, repair and maintenance burden. That anyone would imagine modular weapons systems are beneficial fails the sanity test because a ship can only perform one set of module dependent tasks at once! If you need both functions you cannot have that without adding more vessels, more crews and all the enormous tail which goes with them. The concept is not just unsound but idiotic, illogical and indefensible yet it was tried anyway. This tells me the US Navy is not competently managed because such nonsense should have been knifed in the crib. It's not merely insulting to our Sailors but negligent. No one will be punished, there will be no career fallout because a force which tolerates this in the first place is beyond reform or the will to reform, and the humans responsible will do other institutional damage because they're incompetent. These issues are of near-zero public interest so nothing will change.
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