Question Regarding Decommissioned LCS Ships

[Foo Fighter]

Littoral Combat Ship USS Coronado.​

Placed in reserve, decommissioned but, what would the 'reason for this be? Too expensive to run? Failed to fit in the admiral's bathtub?

I have to admit to a failure to understand the policies for these vessels.

 

[Foo Fighter]

Thank you for moving this post, sorry, I should have given placement a little more thought or worded things differently.

 

[Firefinder]

For the first 4 LCS, they were only design to last bout 10 15 years.

They were prototypes to see which design was best when Lockmart decide to to throw a fit on how their was not picked.

Long story short Austal still won, Lockheed had congress force their design anyways.

Either way the first 4, two Austeal Independence and two Lockheed Freedoms were always going be retired fast since they were prototypes.

Whike with most of the other LCS looking at being retire is of the Lockheed Freedom class cause their gearbox were poorly designed and made, ironically cause they switch from USA made to German. With the cost to replace the gearbox being on the order of buy a new ship its cheaper.

While the Austals Independence class been actually working well with minur issues. Some cracking in their aluminum hull plating. Which is painfully normal for Aluminium in watrships to do and says something that it took nearly ten years for it to become a noticeable problem instead of right after launch like on the Ticos and Perries.

 

[totallyaverage]

For the first 4 LCS, they were only design to last bout 10 15 years.

They were prototypes to see which design was best when Lockmart decide to to throw a fit on how their was not picked.

Long story short Austal still won, Lockheed had congress force their design anyways.

Either way the first 4, two Austeal Independence and two Lockheed Freedoms were always going be retired fast since they were prototypes.

Whike with most of the other LCS looking at being retire is of the Lockheed Freedom class cause their gearbox were poorly designed and made, ironically cause they switch from USA made to German. With the cost to replace the gearbox being on the order of buy a new ship its cheaper.

While the Austals Independence class been actually working well with minur issues. Some cracking in their aluminum hull plating. Which is painfully normal for Aluminium in watrships to do and says something that it took nearly ten years for it to become a noticeable problem instead of right after launch like on the Ticos and Perries.

Austal did not "win," in fact they were awarded a contract second after Lockheed (October 2005 versus December 2004). Actually it wasn't even Austal then, General Dynamics was at the time the prime contractor. The Navy always intended to award contracts to two separate offerers as a competitive prototyping effort. Electing to continue with both designs wasn't the original intent in 2004, but a multitude of schedule problems and two extremely competitive bids lead the Navy to chose to build both designs.

In fact it was the Navy who asked Congress to authorize both designs, which they permitted in the December 2010 Continuing Resolution.

The cost of fixing the combining gear fix is nowhere near that high either, USNI reported in August 2022 that the estimated cost was three million per ship, with the cost being split 50/50.