USS Freedom at sea

reply to post by oxillini


Thank you for your post. I was reading all through these posts and it seemed that several went off track or hi-jacked the thread. The USS Freeedom is in fact, the first Littoral combat ship in the Navy. It's a new breed designed to sail close to shore and do beach assaults. The Freedom uses the RAM (rolling airframe missle) system. It is capable of deploying two helicopters. It's propulsion system is not propeller, it's jet pump driven by a Rolls Royce MT-30 gas turbine with 96,550 horsepower.

But the Freedom isn't the only LCS. Here in Mobile, we just Christened the USS Independence. gizmodo.com... It's a tri hull type boat built for close in support and beach assaults. It's armament is also awesome. Both boats will be capable of launching forces to a beach front.

Our boat, the USS Independence was built at Austal and is solid aluminum, good for mine warfare and was built by General Dynamics.

USS Freedom has conducted it's maiden deployment in the South West Pacific region:

The Navy’s USS Freedom conducted several operational patrol missions in the South China Sea while on a 32,000-mile, 10-month long maiden deployment through the Pacific region, service officials said....
....The ship just completed its first deployment from San Diego to Guam, Singapore, the South China Sea and the Philippines – where it assisted with disaster relief missions.

During its deployment in the South China Sea, the USS Freedom conducted a handful of operational patrols for the Navy’s Commander of the 7th fleet, Vice Adm. Tom Copeman, Commander, Naval Surface Forces, told reporters Jan. 6.

Read more: defensetech.org...

Elegant design and a long way from the traditional warships of the 1950s and 1960s. Then the art of warfare has changed dramatically.

Launch of Freedoms sister ship LCS-5 USS Milwaukee (Skip to 2:05 for the action shot):

this is a thread about the launch of the uss freedom a littoraal or brown navy combat ship why is so many people mistaking this thread for one on the dd1000 destroyer which is a totally different class of warship.