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Decommissioned After 2 Years: The Warship the Navy Regrets

Built to be fast, modular, and cheap, the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships ended up being anything but. With propulsion systems that couldn’t sprint, mission modules that couldn’t swap, and entire ships decommissioned just two years after launch, this is the story of how one of the Navy’s most ambitious projects became its biggest logistical headache, while still ordering six more.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/decommissioned-after-2-years-the-warship-the-navy-regrets/vi-AA1LeiSG?ocid=widgetonlockscreen&cvid=69048644fd07472bbcc946cf15521ce0&ei=76
abolitionist Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.”