She's lightly armed for such a large ship - at least large in terms of the US Coast Guard. The Famous-class still sports the rapid-fire 76mm, as does the Hamilton-class, which I think the Heritage-class is meant to replace. I know the USCG downgraded a lot of its weapons systems after the end of the Cold War, but it's interesting how much more lightly armed they all seem to be getting despite how involved they are in the South Pacific.
@@sword_of_light Yeah but I wouldn't be to worried about it thought. The U.S. Coast Guard don't rarely ever participate in any global war besides search and rescue mission. The closest danger would probably be engaging in piracy or drug smuggling. Also arming them would be costly since they also have to account for personals who needs to be trained to operate and maintaining the weapons. As for the large size, this would be good for the Coast Guard to traverse across the Ocean for instance going to Hawaii or Alaska if need be.
@@zeroinfinity9189 - No. The US Coast Guard has been fighting global conflicts since the French Quasi-War of 1798. They were escorting convoys in WWII, as well as piloting landing craft. A Coast Guardsman named Douglas A. Munro was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the rescue of three Marine companies during the Battle of Guadalcanal. In the Vietnam war, the US Coast Guard were the first US vessels to patrol the Mekong Delta, as the US Navy at the time had no shallow-draft vessels that could navigate the river. Currently, the Coast Guard has numerous vessels deployed in the South Pacific at the request of allied nations like the Philippines, to counter-act aggression by Chinese militia vessels pretending to be fishermen. If conflict with China occurs, the US Coast Guard will likely be the ones first on the scene.
@eliot5100 no way, no US Navy warship of the line commissioned since WWII could only make 20 kn! Unless a minesweeper or amphib, not a ship of the line, at least 30 kn, usually 34+. The USS Kitty Hawk CV63 did 32 during OPPE full boiler flex and flank speed trials, I was on it in 1998.
@@victorglaviano You obviously didn't read my answer. YOU NEVER GIVE ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN BE USED TO CONFIRM A SHIPS CAPABILITIES. Its called OPSEC - Operational Security. You never show a potential enemy your true capabilities.
They decommissioned the first group of Littoral combat ships because they were defective. Issues with the power plant with one class and hull on the other, being two of the larger issues. From what I’ve heard they fixed the issues and that’s why they’re moving forward. However, if I’m wrong it wouldn’t surprise me that they still move forward…. If they work, they’ll come in handy in east Asia.
@@MattyJ55046YOUR RIGHT! 50 MILES AN HOUR! THEY'RE PUTTING 8 NSM's ON THEM! ( NAVAL STRIKE MISSILES) THEY CAN OPERATE ON SHALLOW WATERS AND ON RADAR BLEND IN WITH THE HUNDREDS OF SMALL ISLANDS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS ISLAND! 🏝️ ⛓️ THEY EACH HAVE A ANTI SUBMARINE HELICOPTER. SO THE LCS ARE NOT THE LAME DUCKS MOST OF YOU ADMIRALS MAKE THEM OUT TO BE!
The Freedom and Independence class ships have been a complete failure. The navy has decommissioned ships from these classes in as little as five years since their commission. The fact we are still building these ships in spite of their shortcomings is an example of our government ineptness.
The original idea behind them is sound, but for all practical purposes, the early ships of both classes ended up as test beds as they figured out what does work and what doesn’t work. That said, both classes ended up as victims of feature bloat, as the Navy tried to make them into mini Arleigh Burkes, with the capacity a little bit of everything.
@clifford4514 probably won't be anymore cruisers, DDGs like Arleigh Burke class have AEGIS, TLAMs and there's no other capital ships in other navies except for Russia with outdated heavy cruisers full of guns! Outdated, expensive and probably could pay for 1.5 Arleigh Burke's for the price of a new Tico class CG. Also the Navy ordered a bunch of new Constellation class FFGs (Italian Fincantieri class frigates).
If I were younger and had the chops I'd want to fly a fighter jet and being on a carrier seemed harder than an air strip, but thinking it through it seems being a Naval Aviator is something of a deathwish.
@@paulmicheldenverco1 I was in my teens when Top Gun hit the theaters and even though I lived in another country at the time, it was absolutely awe inspiring. Thirty seven years later as we left the cinema after watching Top Gun Maverick my USNA son said: Dad, you know I could apply for flight school to become a Navy pilot. He decided to pursue the submarine fleet instead. I think we watched The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide too often ;-)
That means he will have to become a nuclear engineer. After serving on subs for over twenty years (sonar tech) most nuclear officers given a choice to go back in time and be a nuclear engineer or an inmate at a maximum security prison, ninety-nine percent would choose prison.
@@almoemason He already did 12 months of the enlisted nuclear propulsion training in SC prior to enrolling at the USNA. He was first in his Power School class, which helped to get him into the USNA. He'll have to redo Power School and take the officer's version and then Prototype. He also mentioned that the attrition rate is high for Nukes.
Both classes of the LCS have been evaluated as incapable of carrying out the missions it was designed and the fact that both suffer significant structural or mechanical deficiencies. The crew is too small for the ship to have sustained deployments, is a fuel hog and it was determined to be un-survivable in any conflict with top-tier navies.
Meanwhile, China has launched 6 frigates in the last 18 months as well as a carrier. And more are the way. We are being out built by vessels that are state of the art. I worry for our Navy.
As a Canadian, why can the USA not build our new Type 26 'River Class' frigates? USA seems to have the capacity to crank out ships while our 2-3 facilities will need decades to rebuild our fleet. Are the order slots booked? I understand that we do not need attack submarines nor have the number of men/women required serve on a destroyer. Just curious.
@watchinglistening i still cant wrap my head around this number. 200 MILLION lbs. at greater than 40 knots . Thats the "unclassified" speed. Thats 46 mph. I bet its at least 55 mph top speed. Thats kookoo crazy fast. Heavy duty is the understatement of the century. The U.S has 3 of these in service and 1 or more in various stages of construction , plus , 8 more carriers of up to 90,000 tons in service . 😱. No wonder the world fears US.
@@johnhause7150 The Ford Class is overpowered. However, for all the crap the USN pulls, and all the wasteful spending of tax dollars, I do have to give them that, they've never liked slow ships, and being overpowered gets you out of harms way faster than being underpowered.
@Robdog1-w1f 🤔. Cowardly Lion? The killer Cat that strikes out of fear? Is that your stance? Id say they are more like a Tactical Tiger that carefully chooses its time and place to pounce and makes the kill all by itself. Survival is the name of the game. Lions will eat their own , but a Tiger, now there is REAL POWER. What might a Trump class ship be like?. 150,000 tons of Whoop Ass. The Killer Whale...🤣 ( we already know he wont run from a fight).
Those are the remaining ships under the previous contract as no more will be built and atleast the ship builder of the freedom class has already switched over to building the new constellation class frigates
'maybe' with ......yeah no they're junk! i am also wondering whats the deal with those new frigates we are waiting for. ALso like to see an old nimitz fitted with project replicator
Well they have yet to approve the frigate design that Congress demanded be purchased off the shelf for the purpose of speed of construction. They essentially are redesigning it from scratch, ignoring their Congressional mandate. And even then, when I was working I could have produced the 3D drawings myself, alone, in less than 6 years. The hold up is in the drawing approvals. They are still decommissioning more ships than they are producing and they are going to go down to like 1.2 Virginia's a year now. China is rapidly outpacing us and I don't ever see Australia getting their subs at this rate. Congress has poured countless billions down a hole trying to get them competitive with the Chinese construction rates, but nothing improves. The whole system needs an overhaul.
Ummm... three Virginias aren't being commissioned per year. 2 at most. You should pair this video with one of how many ships the USN is decommissioning, but that would be a lot longer of a video. USN warship production and maintenance infrastructure is really, really bad.
The Virginia and Burke class platforms are prime examples of successful design and execution. That's why both have so many ships/boats ordered. As for the LCS ships.......exact opposite. Under armed and defective......and waste of tax dollars.
And they will have to maintain them. Has Australia sold all of their ports to chin a yet? If the NZ navy is any indication, it won’t be of much use anyways.
Good for "The Buzz" for not using a computer voice. At least. I don't think this is a computer voice. But wouldn't it be better for "The Buzz" to use a narrator who sounds like they are, you know, from America?
Yes, she is a real person narrating. As the Buzz does of "list of" posts, covering assets of a lot of countries, I think it's unreasonable to expect the narrator to be American.
Ship building in general is pretty difficult to hide physically and fiscally but the reason why the specs are vague is that we don't show all the cards publicly.
Submarines seem to be the way too go! It has to be hard with modern technology to protect surface vessels from missile attack? Carriers are expense, and I would bet hard to protect? I don't see much of a future in them!
All wonderful additions for the Navy. 1 class of ship I would begin building ASAP are big boy ice breakers. Things have been looking sketchy in the Antarctic for quite some time now. By building these Ice breakers now, we could have parity with the Russians are they cannot build more of these ships due to the war in Ukraine. Time to outsource some of the Naval needs to allies to keep up with new ships builds as well as being in front of the curve with decommissioning of old unreliable inventory. There are plenty of countries who would love to build new ships for us at a better cost.
The battleship was made obsolete by the aircraft carrier, though they were used for shore bombardment and they launched cruise missiles in the first Gulf War and possibly the second. The rail guns seem to have potential.
THOU AMERICA IS NOT PERFECT IT PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN MAINTAINING THE ORDER OF PEACE AND HUMANITY. FULLY SUPPORT USA, IF NOT THE USA TODAY THE WORLD WOLL BE MUCH MESSIER.
@@thebuzz4108 I understood her every word, I just thought it was inappropriate. For all I know she is a former Deck Officer in the USN. Our nation and Navy are strong because of our diverse population. But not everyone can be a TV/Radio announcer.
Considering their limited armament & range the LCS are indeed a dubious addition to a blue water navy. Don’t really see the Chinese being intimidated by a fleet of these off their shores. If they’re intended for inshore role supporting the marines or the navy seals then why don’t they have at least a 5” gun for shore bombardment. I also note at 3400 tons or so why are they being given names of US cities that in the past were usually reserved for ships in the cruiser class. The SSNs are now being given names of states traditionally reserved for battleships but their role & firepower probably makes them deserving however IMHO. Now returning to the LCS vessels going into reserve in some cases immediately after commissioning, why not give those to the Coast Guard? At 44 knots speed and at least by the standards of coast guard cutters heavy armament they’d be ideal for anti smuggling ops and search & rescue ?😊
America should be building subs, AI sub hunters, aircraft carriers, and AI ships that guard aircraft carriers at sea, and from under the sea automatically The problem is that we have old people, often with no experience at war or on these ships, making the decisions. This needs to stop soon. The best tacticians are often gamers. Use their knowledge and give them recognition. Young people should be deep within the decision making chain, though maybe not making the final ok; as they operate from wanting to win, where old people often just want to defend well. We need to look at the people throughout America for the answers that drive America forward. Identify the bad eggs and scramble them, before they become a problem. Go AI, go hive mind, go drones with only people guiding the overall, and let computers build jets that can do 50x gravity, because computers don’t care. Stop building to the limitations of men (and women), but rather computer programs and AI. peace through strength
Not ONE will survive a hypersonic missile hit. A $billion$ ship vs $million$ missile. 1000 to 1 loss. An entire navy lost in a week or two. Silly, but good for cash flow!
Those subs are 20 years old, america is very glad that Russia and China have P.O.S. Navies so they still are the best attack sub needed for them. Hahaha, lol USCG means coast-guard, they do shoot smugglers boats, but they are not to be mentioned in a top 10 naval vessels (especially not the deadliest top ten).
THEY'RE PUTTING 8 NSM'S ON THEM ( NAVAL STRIKE MISSILES)! THE LCS CAN HIDE IN THE HUNDREDS OF SMALL ISLANDS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS 🏝️⛓️ AND GET LOST ON RADAR CLUTTER CLOSE TO THE ISLANDS! AND THEN PUT A NAVAL STRIKE MISSILE IN YOUR SIDE WHEN YOU PASS THRU A STRAIT! YOU SELF APPOINTED ADMIRALS MAKE ME CHUCKLE SOMETIMES!😊!
US builds more F-35 stealth aircraft. Their are 5 times more F-35 than J-20 with half of that in US arsernal. Not to mention J-20 is NOT as stealthy. US also have 6 - 7 times more satellites and that is even before SpaceX's contract for Starshield.
@@phils4634 I'm not even American. As for who has what, don't for a minute think you have a clue how a confrontation would work out just because you you THINK you know some of the pieces involved! One silly joke about terrible Chinese products and out come the armchair generals!
@@smgdfcmfah Well with Trump's "China Hawk" picks we might find out who is better. I'm placing my money on the global manufacturing super-power, who also has the home advantage.
I suggest you learn to speak one of the Chinese languages. The USA has made some dumb mistakes in the navy. The Zumwalt class destroyer was a huge waste of money and US taxpayers resources just to name one. Being black mailed by the companies that make them and the systems that are needed , with parts that are 5 times the cost and repairs that require special technicians because of patent rights. The Chinese don't have these companies black mailing them. As of now the Chinese can and would over power the US navy.
@@lawrenceestubo4192 the US Navy has not gotten a ship delivered anywhere near on-time or even close to the amount budgeted in a very long time. (I thought that the navy had decided to ditch the LCS in favor of a new frigate for literal shore duties, but then what the heck do I know?.)
I love that the excellent sister who narrates here has Taiwan Mandarin accent. 🫡🇹🇼 Yet I think these specs are the public scoop. Reality is classified.
It's good to see the Coast Guard getting a new ship!
She's lightly armed for such a large ship - at least large in terms of the US Coast Guard. The Famous-class still sports the rapid-fire 76mm, as does the Hamilton-class, which I think the Heritage-class is meant to replace. I know the USCG downgraded a lot of its weapons systems after the end of the Cold War, but it's interesting how much more lightly armed they all seem to be getting despite how involved they are in the South Pacific.
@@sword_of_light Yeah but I wouldn't be to worried about it thought. The U.S. Coast Guard don't rarely ever participate in any global war besides search and rescue mission. The closest danger would probably be engaging in piracy or drug smuggling. Also arming them would be costly since they also have to account for personals who needs to be trained to operate and maintaining the weapons. As for the large size, this would be good for the Coast Guard to traverse across the Ocean for instance going to Hawaii or Alaska if need be.
@@zeroinfinity9189 - No. The US Coast Guard has been fighting global conflicts since the French Quasi-War of 1798. They were escorting convoys in WWII, as well as piloting landing craft. A Coast Guardsman named Douglas A. Munro was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for leading the rescue of three Marine companies during the Battle of Guadalcanal. In the Vietnam war, the US Coast Guard were the first US vessels to patrol the Mekong Delta, as the US Navy at the time had no shallow-draft vessels that could navigate the river.
Currently, the Coast Guard has numerous vessels deployed in the South Pacific at the request of allied nations like the Philippines, to counter-act aggression by Chinese militia vessels pretending to be fishermen. If conflict with China occurs, the US Coast Guard will likely be the ones first on the scene.
As a Marine I have to say I’m damn proud of our Navy! Anchors Aweigh!🇺🇸
And our Woke military will go away in 2025. More good patriots will be enlisting.
It’s hard to gauge how big those subs are until you see them dry-docked next to a person for scale….WOW.
25 knots on the Iowa? I love how our military down plays our capabilities =)
I also thought that speed was too low.
Standard spiel >20 Knots >400 Ft depth. The issue has never been the accuracy of the information but the confirmation of the specs.
@@ManOfChaiTea Kitty Hawk did 32 kn, I was on it!
@eliot5100 no way, no US Navy warship of the line commissioned since WWII could only make 20 kn! Unless a minesweeper or amphib, not a ship of the line, at least 30 kn, usually 34+. The USS Kitty Hawk CV63 did 32 during OPPE full boiler flex and flank speed trials, I was on it in 1998.
@@victorglaviano You obviously didn't read my answer. YOU NEVER GIVE ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN BE USED TO CONFIRM A SHIPS CAPABILITIES. Its called OPSEC - Operational Security. You never show a potential enemy your true capabilities.
The Littoral Combat ships are being decommissioned almost as fast as the enter services. The navy considers them floating coffins.
LCS = Little Crappy Ship
Everytime I see one of these commissioned I think "Aren't we through with these yet?"
Give them to the coast guard. Close to shore if they break down (they do), but fast enough to challenge drug runners and hey almost as well armed.
They decommissioned the first group of Littoral combat ships because they were defective. Issues with the power plant with one class and hull on the other, being two of the larger issues. From what I’ve heard they fixed the issues and that’s why they’re moving forward. However, if I’m wrong it wouldn’t surprise me that they still move forward…. If they work, they’ll come in handy in east Asia.
@@MattyJ55046YOUR RIGHT! 50 MILES AN HOUR! THEY'RE PUTTING 8 NSM's ON THEM! ( NAVAL STRIKE MISSILES) THEY CAN OPERATE ON SHALLOW WATERS AND ON RADAR BLEND IN WITH THE HUNDREDS OF SMALL ISLANDS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS ISLAND! 🏝️ ⛓️ THEY EACH HAVE A ANTI SUBMARINE HELICOPTER. SO THE LCS ARE NOT THE LAME DUCKS MOST OF YOU ADMIRALS MAKE THEM OUT TO BE!
The Freedom and Independence class ships have been a complete failure. The navy has decommissioned ships from these classes in as little as five years since their commission. The fact we are still building these ships in spite of their shortcomings is an example of our government ineptness.
I mean i think they look cool thats about it
Elon and DOGE will be on it.
Also the Littoral class ships.
Is is the kind of stuff Elon ca get rid of with DOGE
The original idea behind them is sound, but for all practical purposes, the early ships of both classes ended up as test beds as they figured out what does work and what doesn’t work. That said, both classes ended up as victims of feature bloat, as the Navy tried to make them into mini Arleigh Burkes, with the capacity a little bit of everything.
Need to build more Destroyers. And Cruisers. Only have 4 Cruisers. And most of the Destroyers are old
@clifford4514 probably won't be anymore cruisers, DDGs like Arleigh Burke class have AEGIS, TLAMs and there's no other capital ships in other navies except for Russia with outdated heavy cruisers full of guns! Outdated, expensive and probably could pay for 1.5 Arleigh Burke's for the price of a new Tico class CG. Also the Navy ordered a bunch of new Constellation class FFGs (Italian Fincantieri class frigates).
It’s so nice to hear your voice again, Kim. I hope everything is going well for you.
My son will be graduating from the USNA and wants to serve on a fast attack sub.
If I were younger and had the chops I'd want to fly a fighter jet and being on a carrier seemed harder than an air strip, but thinking it through it seems being a Naval Aviator is something of a deathwish.
@@paulmicheldenverco1 I was in my teens when Top Gun hit the theaters and even though I lived in another country at the time, it was absolutely awe inspiring. Thirty seven years later as we left the cinema after watching Top Gun Maverick my USNA son said: Dad, you know I could apply for flight school to become a Navy pilot. He decided to pursue the submarine fleet instead. I think we watched The Hunt for Red October and Crimson Tide too often ;-)
That means he will have to become a nuclear engineer. After serving on subs for over twenty years (sonar tech) most nuclear officers given a choice to go back in time and be a nuclear engineer or an inmate at a maximum security prison, ninety-nine percent would choose prison.
@@almoemason He already did 12 months of the enlisted nuclear propulsion training in SC prior to enrolling at the USNA. He was first in his Power School class, which helped to get him into the USNA. He'll have to redo Power School and take the officer's version and then Prototype. He also mentioned that the attrition rate is high for Nukes.
@@paulmicheldenverco1 As is driving a car . . . few Naval Aviators have ever been involved in an accident.
Both classes of the LCS have been evaluated as incapable of carrying out the missions it was designed and the fact that both suffer significant structural or mechanical deficiencies. The crew is too small for the ship to have sustained deployments, is a fuel hog and it was determined to be un-survivable in any conflict with top-tier navies.
DDGs 124 and 126 are Bathe built. They are behind the curve Jack Lucas DDG 125 was commission before and delivered to navy before anyone those 2 were
FYI, Raleigh Burke class destroyers can cruise at 30kts. Top speed at full emergency is better than 40kts
This video neglected to state that the USCGC Argus was built by Eastern Shipyard, Panama City, Florida.
Yeah, adding 6 new ships and retiring 13? Going in the wrong direction.
Depends. If the retired ships are so out dated that they are not of much use costs are high to maintain budget wise it may be the prudent thing to do
They can retire them and use their frame for building other vessels
Meanwhile, China has launched 6 frigates in the last 18 months as well as a carrier. And more are the way.
We are being out built by vessels that are state of the art.
I worry for our Navy.
@@danlambert1061 Capability matters more than numbers as technology advances.
Need money to build new ones. That is 7 ships no longer tugging on the budget.
What country is this channel being produced from?
take a wild guess...
Chiii...na!
@@arthouston7361 Receipts? Enquiring minds want to know. On another note.. your replies RUclips translation to English is interesting.
The accent of the girl is definitely not American
Chinese narstive. Obsessed with America.
As a Canadian, why can the USA not build our new Type 26 'River Class' frigates? USA seems to have the capacity to crank out ships while our 2-3 facilities will need decades to rebuild our fleet. Are the order slots booked? I understand that we do not need attack submarines nor have the number of men/women required serve on a destroyer. Just curious.
The U.S. is experiencing a shortage of qualified shipwrights, which has made for construction delays on our own ships.
@@PantheraOnca60 Sad times. Without new ships, the RCN cannot grow/replace the current fleet.
100,000 tons in EXCESS of 40 knots. 🤯
I READ THAT THE HULLS AT THE WATER LINE ARE 8 INCHES THICK! THAT'S A HEAVY DUTY HORNETS NEST!
@watchinglistening i still cant wrap my head around this number. 200 MILLION lbs. at greater than 40 knots . Thats the "unclassified" speed. Thats 46 mph. I bet its at least 55 mph top speed. Thats kookoo crazy fast. Heavy duty is the understatement of the century. The U.S has 3 of these in service and 1 or more in various stages of construction , plus , 8 more carriers of up to 90,000 tons in service . 😱. No wonder the world fears US.
@@johnhause7150 The Ford Class is overpowered. However, for all the crap the USN pulls, and all the wasteful spending of tax dollars, I do have to give them that, they've never liked slow ships, and being overpowered gets you out of harms way faster than being underpowered.
@Robdog1-w1f 🤔. Cowardly Lion? The killer Cat that strikes out of fear? Is that your stance? Id say they are more like a Tactical Tiger that carefully chooses its time and place to pounce and makes the kill all by itself. Survival is the name of the game. Lions will eat their own , but a Tiger, now there is REAL POWER.
What might a Trump class ship be like?.
150,000 tons of Whoop Ass.
The Killer Whale...🤣
( we already know he wont run from a fight).
Such creative videos you’ve on this channel. Just subscribed!
Wow, so many epic ships.
Ford class super carrier to 3 Virginia class attack submarines in just 2025.
50 year service life for nuclear carriers . 20-25 years for first mid life refit .
Midway was in service for 50 years.
Actually, I heard the new carriers can go their whole life (50 years) without having to do a mid life refuel.
the flight 3 burkes hold 132 missiles only 10 less then a tico
800ft depth?
Probably more like a thousand
More likely classified.
Why are we still wasting money on Littoral ships? We would be better served by frigates or corvettes.
Those are the remaining ships under the previous contract as no more will be built and atleast the ship builder of the freedom class has already switched over to building the new constellation class frigates
'maybe' with ......yeah no they're junk! i am also wondering whats the deal with those new frigates we are waiting for. ALso like to see an old nimitz fitted with project replicator
Well they have yet to approve the frigate design that Congress demanded be purchased off the shelf for the purpose of speed of construction. They essentially are redesigning it from scratch, ignoring their Congressional mandate. And even then, when I was working I could have produced the 3D drawings myself, alone, in less than 6 years. The hold up is in the drawing approvals.
They are still decommissioning more ships than they are producing and they are going to go down to like 1.2 Virginia's a year now. China is rapidly outpacing us and I don't ever see Australia getting their subs at this rate. Congress has poured countless billions down a hole trying to get them competitive with the Chinese construction rates, but nothing improves. The whole system needs an overhaul.
Removing the well deck for the America class was nonsensical ! At least they've rectified their expensive mistake!
The surface vessels require guns that point low enough for sea drones
helios !
Missiles are better at intercepting drones
@@jailbird1133 but intercepting a 10k drone with a 1m missile is a losing proposition. now if Anruill can come up with cheap misisle swarms..
@@jailbird1133at what cost?
Twenty-five knots?? That’s with the pedal halfway down😂😂
Yeah, I was on a destroyer built in 1961 that did 33 knots while I was on it!
Ummm... three Virginias aren't being commissioned per year. 2 at most. You should pair this video with one of how many ships the USN is decommissioning, but that would be a lot longer of a video. USN warship production and maintenance infrastructure is really, really bad.
Excellent podcast. Any air or ground assets to report
The Virginia and Burke class platforms are prime examples of successful design and execution. That's why both have so many ships/boats ordered. As for the LCS ships.......exact opposite. Under armed and defective......and waste of tax dollars.
The subs are way deadlier than the surface vessels.
i'm a fan of the AMerica class though. THink we need to focus more on frigates, CVL's and drone carriers/ordanance ships
@@Dreadwolf3155 The USN ships are all massively cool. But a single Ohio SSBN is a nuclear superpower by itself.
Noticed a lot of literal ships being built. Might be a harbinger of things to come.
Littoral. Lol
@@Josh-iv2bw At least he didn't say Clittoral. LOL
USS Pierre is actually pronounced “Peer” not the French pronunciation of “Pea Air” - just an fyi.
I'm a Navy vet, Yes I am laughing at this.
Might we expect further installments, also with an obvious AI ?
I am proud to live United States of America as these ships are coming online.
Get the new Frigates on-line to support the DDGs. I was on FFGs and love those tin cans.
My question is, when will AI technology be used in these ship? Like the M5 in the original Star Trek series..
If I'm not wrong the JF Kennedy should have been commissioned in 2022 but 2025 it was push to.
2025 Iowa submarine is back to diesel power like WW 2 submarines!😮
No, the diesel engine is only a backup to the nuclear reactor. Of course the engine burns corn and soybeans. It is the Iowa.
All nuclear subs have emergency diesel engines
Narrator needs to move the mic further away .
Australia 🇦🇺 is still waiting for our AUKUS submarines. We aren't holding our breath 😅
Those are not due until the mid 2030s. Jumping the gun there a bit.
And they will have to maintain them. Has Australia sold all of their ports to chin a yet? If the NZ navy is any indication, it won’t be of much use anyways.
Hate it when the commentators cannot pronounce names of weapons etc. “littoral”
Their Latin is atrocious as well e.g. Patria is Pah-tree-ah @2:45.
More LCS? What a complete waste of resources and money - ffs navy. Get your shit together.
I look forward to the day when we don't study war no more.
I hope the USS Enterprise (Gerald R. Ford Class Super Carrier) will return soon.
It's the next one, Ibelieve, but if not, it's in the pipeline.
@@thor-cj9dh The Enterprise (CVN-80) is indeed next in line; she's already under construction.
Good for "The Buzz" for not using a computer voice. At least. I don't think this is a computer voice. But wouldn't it be better for "The Buzz" to use a narrator who sounds like they are, you know, from America?
Yes, she is a real person narrating. As the Buzz does of "list of" posts, covering assets of a lot of countries, I think it's unreasonable to expect the narrator to be American.
USA needs to replace All of the Ticonderoga class cruisers. They are really old.
Which ones will take down china?
Why don't we tell everybody what we have
fair point, though i don't think ships are exactly easy to hide.
Ship building in general is pretty difficult to hide physically and fiscally but the reason why the specs are vague is that we don't show all the cards publicly.
An LCS on thus list? Uh the LCS class is to expensive and a experiment
TWO of them !! I'm not convinced that the LCS ships are worth having. I reserve the right to be wrong about this....
expensive yes, experiment, unfortunately, no
The narrator needs to improve her English pronunciation. She is hard to understand sometimes.
Bring back the Cruisers!
Submarines seem to be the way too go! It has to be hard with modern technology to protect surface vessels from missile attack? Carriers are expense, and I would bet hard to protect? I don't see much of a future in them!
All wonderful additions for the Navy.
1 class of ship I would begin building ASAP are big boy ice breakers.
Things have been looking sketchy in the Antarctic for quite some time now.
By building these Ice breakers now, we could have parity with the Russians are they cannot build more of these ships due to the war in Ukraine.
Time to outsource some of the Naval needs to allies to keep up with new ships builds as well as being in front of the curve with decommissioning of old unreliable inventory.
There are plenty of countries who would love to build new ships for us at a better cost.
Freedom class. Freedom of stupidity
Pierre, SD is pronounced 'pier', and, the Little Crappy Ships should all be scrapped.
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Could you not find a narrator with better diction?
Anyone else besides me think we need to get back to building a few new battleships with nuclear reactors and rail guns?
They are useless in modern warfare
The battleship was made obsolete by the aircraft carrier, though they were used for shore bombardment and they launched cruise missiles in the first Gulf War and possibly the second. The rail guns seem to have potential.
Probably all surface ships r now pretty much obsolete...in the age of satillite servalence.and hypersonic missles 😢
Russia and China got them all on their list!!
A Chinese AI telling and showing what we have coming up! Crazy ain't it?!
Although this generation of LCS was a complete failure, it's not a bad concept combining MCM, PT, and OPV into one platform.
Thats alot of seamen there 😂
What good are all these military vessels if they allow Russian and Chinese ships to enter us waters
THOU AMERICA IS NOT PERFECT IT PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN MAINTAINING THE ORDER OF PEACE AND HUMANITY. FULLY SUPPORT USA, IF NOT THE USA TODAY THE WORLD WOLL BE MUCH MESSIER.
Why not use someone who speaks clear English as their native tongue? Too many words are mispronounced.
You can use the subtitle
@@thebuzz4108 I understood her every word, I just thought it was inappropriate. For all I know she is a former Deck Officer in the USN. Our nation and Navy are strong because of our diverse population. But not everyone can be a TV/Radio announcer.
Her English is more understandable than half of my born in the USA neighbors.
Sorry guys but, please get a real microphone with a screen in front of it. Also, tell the girl to quit trying to eat the mic.
Sure.
Might not be a bad thing.
Frigates are the future
frigates and drone swarms. could a drone with say a W plate be used as a close in missile interceptor?
Im guessing this narrator is NOT from South Dakota. ( Pierre ..Like the guy from France ). lol 🤣
Um yah remove the LCS they are absolute trash. and also remove anything in the coast guard. you have to actually have armaments to be deadly....
You should actually watch the video before posting a comment junior. The CG cutter is armed with a 57mm gun, a 25mm gun and 50 cals.
Considering their limited armament & range the LCS are indeed a dubious addition to a blue water navy. Don’t really see the Chinese being intimidated by a fleet of these off their shores. If they’re intended for inshore role supporting the marines or the navy seals then why don’t they have at least a 5” gun for shore bombardment. I also note at 3400 tons or so why are they being given names of US cities that in the past were usually reserved for ships in the cruiser class. The SSNs are now being given names of states traditionally reserved for battleships but their role & firepower probably makes them deserving however IMHO. Now returning to the LCS vessels going into reserve in some cases immediately after commissioning, why not give those to the Coast Guard? At 44 knots speed and at least by the standards of coast guard cutters heavy armament they’d be ideal for anti smuggling ops and search & rescue ?😊
Freedom class LCS YES. But Independence class LCS can still be repurposed. It can be a drone carrier due to it large flight deck. And its fast too.
Your ignorance is almost comical.
@@Nyth63almost.
I can't wait to see the USS Donald J. Trump.
It won't happen. I'm pretty sure you have to have served in order to have your name on a ship.
@@flyer14bravo29 You absolutely do not.
It will be the biggest, fastest, most powerful ever. It will scare Chiiinah.
You can’t name a navy vessel after a convicted felon and a draft dodger period. Navy Viet Nam vet here.
@@ericsorensen8705not a convicted felon.
Let Elon’s engineers design the next LCS’s please. The DOD has already wasted over $20b (with a bee) in the first round of mothballed failures 🤬
A nuclear ship is still a steam ship.
The USA is in debt 36Trillion dollars.
You know what makes me skip videos? AI narration.
America should be building subs, AI sub hunters, aircraft carriers, and AI ships that guard aircraft carriers at sea, and from under the sea automatically
The problem is that we have old people, often with no experience at war or on these ships, making the decisions. This needs to stop soon. The best tacticians are often gamers. Use their knowledge and give them recognition. Young people should be deep within the decision making chain, though maybe not making the final ok; as they operate from wanting to win, where old people often just want to defend well. We need to look at the people throughout America for the answers that drive America forward. Identify the bad eggs and scramble them, before they become a problem. Go AI, go hive mind, go drones with only people guiding the overall, and let computers build jets that can do 50x gravity, because computers don’t care. Stop building to the limitations of men (and women), but rather computer programs and AI. peace through strength
Not ONE will survive a hypersonic missile hit. A $billion$ ship vs $million$ missile. 1000 to 1 loss. An entire navy lost in a week or two. Silly, but good for cash flow!
All late and over budget and fraught with problems from day 1
Those subs are 20 years old, america is very glad that Russia and China have P.O.S. Navies so they still are the best attack sub needed for them.
Hahaha, lol USCG means coast-guard, they do shoot smugglers boats, but they are not to be mentioned in a top 10 naval vessels (especially not the deadliest top ten).
Great, more Billions of dollars wasted on ships that will never see combat. Pathetic
THEY'RE PUTTING 8 NSM'S ON THEM ( NAVAL STRIKE MISSILES)! THE LCS CAN HIDE IN THE HUNDREDS OF SMALL ISLANDS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND ISLAND CHAINS 🏝️⛓️ AND GET LOST ON RADAR CLUTTER CLOSE TO THE ISLANDS! AND THEN PUT A NAVAL STRIKE MISSILE IN YOUR SIDE WHEN YOU PASS THRU A STRAIT! YOU SELF APPOINTED ADMIRALS MAKE ME CHUCKLE SOMETIMES!😊!
STOP building anymore surface ships!
Build ONLY submarines!!!!!!!!!!
A Ford Class carrier, a light carrier, 3 Virginias, 2 Burkes, 2 LCS (!?).
The Chinese build more...
And the Chinese ships are bottom ready!
US builds more F-35 stealth aircraft. Their are 5 times more F-35 than J-20 with half of that in US arsernal. Not to mention J-20 is NOT as stealthy. US also have 6 - 7 times more satellites and that is even before SpaceX's contract for Starshield.
@@smgdfcmfah They have the DF-21. You don't. When the US surface (and submarine) fleet are sunk, so is the US hegemony.
@@phils4634 I'm not even American. As for who has what, don't for a minute think you have a clue how a confrontation would work out just because you you THINK you know some of the pieces involved! One silly joke about terrible Chinese products and out come the armchair generals!
@@smgdfcmfah Well with Trump's "China Hawk" picks we might find out who is better. I'm placing my money on the global manufacturing super-power, who also has the home advantage.
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It is pronounced /pIer/ PEER. GET IT RIGHT
I suggest you learn to speak one of the Chinese languages. The USA has made some dumb mistakes in the navy. The Zumwalt class destroyer was a huge waste of money and US taxpayers resources just to name one. Being black mailed by the companies that make them and the systems that are needed , with parts that are 5 times the cost and repairs that require special technicians because of patent rights. The Chinese don't have these companies black mailing them. As of now the Chinese can and would over power the US navy.
These pages are a joke. They're made by just using a bot to read a Wiki page...that's usually wrong
why the designs are kinda ugly hahahahaha
Boring voice
Really? LOL.
Couldn't get anyone better to narrate this video that can actually pronounce the words properly??
Now tax every man, woman, and child in the US $1000 to pay for them.
Far more than that! You are being deceived!
This is a joke... they will not be in service even in 2030
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How did you know, are you the builder?
@@lawrenceestubo4192 the US Navy has not gotten a ship delivered anywhere near on-time or even close to the amount budgeted in a very long time. (I thought that the navy had decided to ditch the LCS in favor of a new frigate for literal shore duties, but then what the heck do I know?.)
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about a nuclear-powered canoe
No really good video pretty much all the chef is already commission I don't know what you're talking about
I love that the excellent sister who narrates here has Taiwan Mandarin accent. 🫡🇹🇼
Yet I think these specs are the public scoop. Reality is classified.