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    Navy Signs $1.4B Contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding for 13th San Antonio.....


    An artist’s concept of the 12th San Antonio-class (LPD-17) amphibious warship Fort Lauderdale. HII Image

    The Navy signed a $1.4 billion contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding for the LPD-29 San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock.


    The ship will be the 13th in a class that has varied in planned size over the years but as of just a few years ago was meant to stop at 11.


    With a hot production line often delivering ships on time or early, the Navy and lawmakers added the future Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and then LPD-29 to the plans to help bridge the production line between the San Antonio-class LPDs and the LPD-based LX(R)s that will replace the aging dock landing ships (LSD-41/49).


    Lawmakers sought to provide some funding for either an LPD-30 or the first LX(R) in FY 2018, this current fiscal year, though the spending plan has still not been approved by Congress. House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee chairman Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) this week called finalizing the funding for that ship a top priority for Congress.


    Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., and General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego will compete for the LX(R) construction contract, though it is generally assumed that Ingalls will build those ships to leverage the hot LPD production line......snip~


    https://news.usni.org/2018/02/16/nav...uilding-lpd-29


    Well......what do you think. Should we go with the upgrade or the LX-R
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    Navy Picks Five Contenders for Next Generation Frigate FFG(X) Program.....





    Five ship designs will compete in the Navy’s bid for 20 next-generation guided-missile frigates (FFG(X)) that will follow the Littoral Combat Ship, the service announced on Friday.


    Five shipbuilders were awarded contracts for conceptual design of the frigates, which the Navy will evaluate over the next 16 months ahead of a final request for proposal in 2019 and a contract award in 2020.
    Austal USA, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Fincantieri Marine and Huntington Ingalls Industries were each awarded $15 million contracts for the work.


    “These conceptual designs will reduce FFG(X) risk by enabling industry to mature designs to meet the approved FFG(X) capability requirements,” read a late Friday statement from Naval Sea Systems Command.


    “The contracts based on these requirements will facilitate maturing multiple designs during the 16 months of the conceptual design phase, and will allow the Navy to better understand the cost and capability drivers across the various design options. Furthermore, this will inform the final specifications for a full and open competition with a single source award in FY20 for Detail Design and Construction (DD&C) of the FFG(X).”



    Though the Navy had not settled on a final solution regarding how many Vertical Launching System (VLS) cells the ship would have and what balance of VLS-compatible missiles it might use, the RFI made clear VLS would be an important part of the frigate’s punching power.


    Aside from the VLS, though, the RFI in many ways resembled the Navy’s previous frigate requirements — the Navy has evolved from an upgunned LCS to a frigate to a guided-missile frigate over the past few years in an attempt to figure out how to address criticisms of the Flight I LCSs being built, fielded and deployed today.


    “Many of the required weapons systems are pulled from the previous FF requirements: the COMBATSS-21 Combat Management System, which pulls software from the same common source library as the Aegis Combat System on large surface combatants; the SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system; a canister-launched over-the-horizon missile; the surface-to-surface Longbow Hellfire missile; the Mk53 Nulka decoy launching system; the Surface Electron Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 2 program with SLQ-32(V)6; and a slew of undersea warfare tools such as the AN/SLQ-61 light weight tow, AN/SQS-62 variable depth sonar and AN/SQQ-89F undersea warfare/anti-submarine warfare combat system. It also requires use of the MK 110 57mm gun with the Advanced Low Cost Munition Ordnance (ALaMO) projectile being developed for the LCS and frigate,” USNI News reported last summer.....snip~


    https://news.usni.org/2018/02/16/nav...te-ffgxprogram


    Not only do we need to upgrade.....but we need a Navy with 355 Ships. Which will give China something to think about quite clearly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post

    An artist’s concept of the 12th San Antonio-class (LPD-17) amphibious warship Fort Lauderdale. HII Image

    The Navy signed a $1.4 billion contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding for the LPD-29 San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock.


    The ship will be the 13th in a class that has varied in planned size over the years but as of just a few years ago was meant to stop at 11.


    With a hot production line often delivering ships on time or early, the Navy and lawmakers added the future Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and then LPD-29 to the plans to help bridge the production line between the San Antonio-class LPDs and the LPD-based LX(R)s that will replace the aging dock landing ships (LSD-41/49).


    Lawmakers sought to provide some funding for either an LPD-30 or the first LX(R) in FY 2018, this current fiscal year, though the spending plan has still not been approved by Congress. House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee chairman Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) this week called finalizing the funding for that ship a top priority for Congress.


    Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., and General Dynamics NASSCO in San Diego will compete for the LX(R) construction contract, though it is generally assumed that Ingalls will build those ships to leverage the hot LPD production line......snip~


    https://news.usni.org/2018/02/16/nav...uilding-lpd-29


    Well......what do you think. Should we go with the upgrade or the LX-R
    Nice boat.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Rockatansky View Post
    Nice boat.
    Meh....it could use some racing stripes or a sharks head on the front.
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