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I just did a lot of reading about this, including comparison between these very recent reports of major problems in the LCS models to older reports extolling how great they are. Here is my preliminary conclusion:Both new LCS variants have serious design flaws, and the Navy has not only known this for years but has been deliberately hushing it up in the hopes they could “work out the kinks” before the next production run began to enter service and exposed the whole program as a boondoggle.There are two design problems in particular which I find far more troubling than the rest:The total lack of any redundancy for some of the most critical systems on the ship, including propulsion.Almost non-existent point defense capability for protection against the ubiquitous threat of small, cheap anti-ship capable missiles.What is perhaps worst is that all the press releases, publicized specifications, and other Navy publications about them now seem, in hindsight, like they may well have been deliberately glossing over or just omitting even oblique references to these glaring problems.Expect at least one Congressional committee to launch a very unpleasant (for certain Navy officers) investigation into this. We may eventually find that this is the first exposure of another as yet unnoticed layer of the corruption that has wormed its way into the administrative portions of the US Navy.

President Donald Trump has been the target of at least three assassins.Do we count a plot that had virtually no chance of succeeding? The most recent publicly reported assassination attempt was a low-level threat.According to news reports, US Navy veteran William Clyde Allen III mailed letters containing either castor bean seeds or small seed particles.[1] A note was found inside, with the words “Jack and the Missile Bean Stock Powder.”[2]Allen is accused of sending envelopes with suspicious substances to the Pentagon and the White House—at least two of the envelopes tested positive for ricin, a highly toxic protein that is derived from pressed seeds of the castor-oil plant.[3]Photo: “Defense Department personnel, wearing protective suits, screen mail as it arrives at a US government facility near the Pentagon.” Thomas Watkins, AFP, Getty Images. Former Navy sailor William Clyde Allen III arrested after ricin seeds sent to Donald Trump, PentagonThe Secret Service intercepted the letter on October 1, 2018, before it reached the White House.Additional letters (also testing positive for ricin) were sent to Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson.[4] After his arrest, Allen admitted to sending even more threatening letters to other world leaders.“Allen III further informed he had sent other letters with the same contents to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Queen of England, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Secretary of the Air Force (whose name he did not recall),” court records state.During an interview with special agents after he was removed from his home on Wednesday, Allen reportedly said he purchased the beans on eBay in December last year just in case World War III broke out.[5]Allen was arrested near his home in Logan, Utah. Investigators were tipped off to his location when he used his own return address on each letter.Among the more serious publicly known threats against President Trump’s life:During a June 2016 presidential campaign event in Las Vegas, an autistic British citizen tried to grab a police officer’s gun. “He allegedly told officers after his arrest that he planned to shoot Trump.”[6] Michael Sandford was diagnosed with having a “psychotic episode,” and was sentenced to one year in prison in the US. He was released after five months, and returned to the United Kingdom.[7]In November 2017, President Trump attended the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Manila, Philippines. The Secret Service, after intercepting “chatter” of a possible attack, tracked an ISIS operative who plotted to kill the president at the summit. The Philippine National Police arrested the suspected terrorist about a mile from the president’s hotel.[8]Footnotes[1] Feds arrest man suspected of sending threatening letters to Pentagon, White House[2] Navy vet charged with sending 'ricin' letter to president Trump[3] Former Navy sailor William Clyde Allen III arrested after ricin seeds sent to Donald Trump, Pentagon[4] Navy vet arrested for allegedly trying to poison Mattis and the Navy’s top officer[5] Prosecutors: Logan man claims he also sent suspicious letters to Elizabeth II, Putin[6] Briton Michael Sandford jailed over plan to shoot Donald Trump[7] Briton who tried to grab policeman's gun 'to kill Donald Trump' is freed[8] How the Secret Service Foiled a Trump Assassination Attempt

Hollywood is an American owned and controlled business. They are not going to release a film based on facts like British armoured carriers being the only operational ones and loaned to the US Navy.The ship that never was - USS Robin (HMS Victorious - on loan to the USA)Why? Because some bright Americans may start asking questions like, Why did the US continue building carriers with wooden flight decks, leaving the ships and crew at the mercy of Japanese dive bombers and Kamikazes, when the Brits just put out the fires, swept the decks and continued flying.Kamikaze attack damage, May 4, 1945 HMS Formidable British Pacific Fleet: Task Force 57 off Sakishima Gunto, Okinawa. 30 minutes later fires were out, deck was cleared and flying continued.But it is not just the Brits who Hollywood ignored, name a yank film with Gurkhas, Indian, Free French/Dutch, Burmese, Indonesian, Aussies or Kiwis mentioned.A classic example of how Hollywood manipulated what the American public were told is this famous scene from the Sands Of Iwo Jima (John Wayne):This is actually the second flag raising, Mount Suribachi, on February 23, 1945, posed for the press, but how many Americans know that the third man from the left - Sgt. Micheal Strank, who was KIA a few days later, was in fact a Slovak. He was eventually awarded his US citizenship 29th July 2008.In short, Hollywood sells ideas to the public with little regard to actual facts, it has done so since films were first made.