In the last several months, the fourth of six Navy Littoral Combat ships has suffered mission-ending power plant issues. Are more possible?

The V-22 Osprey, UH-60 Blackhawk, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, M16 rifle...do you know what these things all have in common? These are all examples of early, repeated failures of new systems that evolved into major combat systems that are employed by the US military today. These systems started off with major cost over runs and are blamed for serious loss of life through catastrophic failures during testing or early fielding due to accidents or unreliability. These faults were eventually fixed and have become staples of American military power.

SCPO (Join to see) I know you are probably looking for an educated answer, but just wanted to say that this issue no longer seems to be isolated and quite frankly is dangerous. Recall!!!

Not going to repeat my comment from a similar post concerning the F-35, so lets just say this is all the same issue. You don't create cutting edge technological weapons systems without problems, period. Dare anyone to come up with any major weapon system that has not had problems and modifications during its first ten years or so of operations.

Nothing works perfectly, that's why we gave Senior Chiefs!

It would appear that these ships are simply very expensive junk. It is bad enough that there has long been questions about their ability to survive in a combat situation but now it seems that they can't stay operational long enough to get to a combat zone.

They need to scrap this program entirely, and focus on updating the Ohio's. These LCS's can do a little of everything, and nothing well. Never mind their engineering problems.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/09/17/lcs-montgomery-suffers-two-engine-casualties-days-commissioning.html?ESRC=navy-a_160921.nl and now the Montgomery... what is going on with these things?
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The Navy just ordered a stand-down of ALL LCS class ships, because they are so unreliable...
I think the decision to have two designs was particularly bad, because that means twice the development costs and much more than that on repairs and parts, along with more vulnerability.

I really hope they don't build any more of the stealth version, and concentrate on fixing up the conventional hulled ships...

I thought it was 4 AFU's... the contractors need to be held responsible and made to Fix the problems out of their Pockets... and If they refuse ... Freeze and Seize all their assets ...