The nine Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships currently in Navy service – the youngest of which commissioned in 2020 – have been marked for disposal

 via USNI News

THE PENTAGON – The nine Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships currently in Navy service – the youngest of which commissioned in 2020 – have been marked for disposal as part of the Department of Defense’s Fiscal Year 2023 budget proposal, USNI News has learned.

The ships – USS Fort Worth (LCS-3), USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), USS Detroit (LCS-7), USS Little Rock (LCS-9), USS Sioux City (LCS-11), USS Wichita (LCS-13), USS Billings (LCS-15) and USS St. Louis (LCS-19) – are part of the 24 ships the service has chosen to decommission in FY 2023 for an estimated $3.6 billion in savings.

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 The Navy intends to take the remaining six Freedom-class ships under construction and fit them with a variation of the surface warfare mission package for missions in U.S. Central and Southern commands, a service official told USNI News.

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Consider this.

The same group of Admirals and Generals that gave us the LCS, MLP and a few other failed ships are the same Admirals and Generals that are putting together the plan to take on China.

How can you have confidence in leadership that failed so badly at their shipbuilding plan that a ship that is less than two years old is being decommissioned?

They're decommissioning ships faster than they're being built but we're supposed to believe that they have the chops to develop a plan to defeat China?