I honestly hope the Freedom wins. This is because I have a large, vested interest in keeping LockMart financially afloat. So yeah, I'm totally biased on this. I have a vested interest in LockMart staying afloat as well but LCS is a very tiny part of the company and lets be honest the USN doesn't ne...
I've noticed a change to the transom on LCS-1 but I'm curious as to why it happened? An October 2009 photo here (before) http://www.flickr.com/photos/goatlockerguns/4102693377/ compared to a July 2010 photo here (after) http://www.flickr.com/photos/rimpac2010/4821439069/ Ah the butt-cheaks. They we...
On CG 47 tico class (likely initial version, 1980's) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/CG-47_CIC.png on CG-52 (maybe after crew reduction ???) http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/cg52-cic.gif The CG-47 CIC maintains that basic layout even now on the Cruiser Mod ships, except wh...