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414 Ships, No LCS: MITRE’s Alternative Navy
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 10, 2017 at 4:47 PM
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The Littoral Combat Ship variants, LCS-1 Freedom & LCS-2 Independence
WASHINGTON: The Navy needs a vastly larger fleet — 414 warships — to win a great-power war, well above today’s 274 ships or even the Navy’s unfunded plan for 355, the think-tank MITRE calculates in a congressionally-chartered study. That ideal fleet would include:
14 aircraft carriers instead of today’s 11;
160 cruisers and destroyers instead of 84;
72 attack submarines instead of today’s 52;
New classes ranging from a missile-packed “magazine ship,” to diesel-powered submarines, to a heavy frigate to replace the Littoral Combat Ship, which would be cancelled.
http://breakingdefense.com/2017/02/414-ships-no-lcs-mitres-alternative-navy/
