LCS 2 underway
July 15th, 2009 | Photos Ships | Posted by Phil Ewing
People are talking about the latest set of images of the littoral combat ship Independence underway on builder’s trials in the Gulf of Mexico. From above the thing looks like a metal arrow head; from the bow-on it looks like a war-making pyramid from a Michael Moorcock novel; from the starboard quarter it looks like Centre Court at Wimbledon. (The size of that flight deck!)
Check ‘em out:
Click for hi res // General Dynamics via Navy
Click for hi res // General Dynamics via Navy
Click for hi res // General Dynamics via Navy
So what do you think?
Comments
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Russ Drummond Says:
July 18th, 2009 at 10:49 amNot bad looking and certainly looks like a menace. It should scare the heck out of the Samolia pirates
I like LCS 1 better.
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Gunner Says:
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:15 amI heard she hit 40+ at 75% power.
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