This is your thread so we can talk Navy here all you want .

I really haven't kept up with those littoral combat ships .

I heard they refunded them ? just to keep them in the fleet ? Because initially I heard they were going to decommission them even though they were practically brand new .

The San Antonio class is a good design .

The problem the Navy has is the congressional mandate to always have 11 fleet carriers . It ties up a big chunk of the budget .

They've been trying to get away from that requirement for a long time now .

That's another thing about nuke boats  - they're super expensive to decommission . The money being spent to decommission the Enterprise could buy several more ships .

That's one reason they extended the service life of the Nimitz .

The Ford is finally operational . Took long enough !!

So what all went wrong with the littoral combat ships . I heard they had structural failures with the hulls . Really embarrassing if that is true .