The Navy announced this week that it wants to decommission nine of these ships as part of its annual budget request to Congress. One of the ships being considered is less than 2 years old.
A class of Navy ships with a long history in San Diego is now on the chopping block. The Littoral combat ship was designed to be small and fast so it could operate close to shore.
All are from the ship’s mechanically troubled Freedom class of LCS, said Bryan Clark, a former Naval officer who is now a senior fellow at the“The ships had lots of problems,” Clark said. “Ships have had to be towed back to port. Ships have been unable to go on deployment. Ships have been stranded in places where they had to be repaired in place, so those have all been really problems of the Freedom class.
“The Independence class, which is the other class, seems to be performing very well,” Clark said. “It's on deployment right now. Three of the Independence-class ships are deployed to the Southeast Asia region out of Singapore and Guam. They've been very effective; they don't have the propulsion train problems; they're beginning to carry some of these longer-range cruise missiles.
San Diego was often the test lab for the LCS as the Navy tried to work out the bugs. The first four ships were ported here to be used for training, before they were also retired. None of the remaining ships is over 10 years old. Rather than continue to purchase more LCS vessels, the Navy has since moved on to building a new frigate. San Diego will become the home for all 16 of the active Independence class ships, after the last LCS is delivered from the shipyard. If Congress agrees with the Navy, a few remaining Freedom class ships will be based at Naval Station Mayport in Florida.
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