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DanieRains

(4,619 posts) Wed Apr 6, 2022, 12:57 PM Apr 2022

America's Navy Is De-Commissioning 9 Attack Vessels

I know where we can send them.

Fully armed of course....

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America's Navy Is De-Commissioning 9 Attack Vessels (Original Post) DanieRains Apr 2022 OP

These would be headaches for them as well. Historic NY Apr 2022 #1

Russia controls the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2022 #2

Or underwater speed bumps? nitpicker Apr 2022 #3

Historic NY

(37,453 posts)

1. These would be headaches for them as well.

Reply to DanieRains (Original post)

Wed Apr 6, 2022, 01:25 PM

Apr 2022

Perhaps using them as blockade runners .

[link:https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2022/03/29/navy-wants-decommission-uss-milwaukee-other-littoral-combat-ships/7205318001/|]

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,043 posts)

2. Russia controls the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. . . . nt

Reply to DanieRains (Original post)

Wed Apr 6, 2022, 01:26 PM

Apr 2022

nitpicker

(7,153 posts)

3. Or underwater speed bumps?

Reply to DanieRains (Original post)

Wed Apr 6, 2022, 02:11 PM

Apr 2022

IMO, you might be citing the LCS Freedom class ships still in commission.

Which were meant to scout the littorals, dock in ports too shallow to take a traditional Navy ship, etc.

But now that we are back to potential near-peer competition, those ships are viewed as expensive luxuries given the need to upgrade them if they need to fulfill missions.

So... shrink the Bosphorus??

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