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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 193.226.227.153 (talk) at 23:31, 13 February 2007 (Why 57mm?). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Can someone upload the photo which appears here...:

http://peoships.crane.navy.mil/lcs/images/GDfinalconcept.jpg

...to this article?

Sorry, I don't don't know how to upload photos here.

British Influence

The hull design looks, from the picture, to be very similiar to the trimarran built and tested in Britian. i.e a long centre hull and half length side hulls. Is this true or am I reading too much into it? 145.253.108.22 17:49, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why 57mm?

Why is the 57mm cannon chosen for both LCS designs? That is a rather small caliber, which is somewhat popular in WARPAC arsenal (light air defence role), but unheard of in the NATO. The NATO standard is the 76mm OTO-Melara rapidfire turret, which is in widespread use and has proven to be quite effective against both air and surface targets. The 76mm OTO Melara turret was fitted successfully to very small warships, like the Tucumcari/Sparviero class of hydrofoils, about 1/3rd the lenght of the LCS and 1/20th the tonnage.

It would be nice if the article explained the reasons behind LCS's 57mm choice. We have a lot of old 57mm L/60 caliber AA / light anti-tank guns here in Hungary and informed opinion is they are best used for greeting salutes, cause they can't destroy anything important.

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