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Freedom, the US Navy’s first Littoral Combat Ship, was launched today, Sept. 23, at Marinette Marine's yard in Marinette, Wis. (Lockheed Martin photo)

Navy Christens Littoral Combat Ship Freedom


(Source: US Navy; issued Sept. 21, 2006)

The U.S. Navy will christen Freedom, the first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) at 10 a.m. CDT on Saturday, Sept. 23, during a ceremony at Marinette Marine Corp. in Marinette, Wis.

The future USS Freedom acknowledges the enduring foundation of our nation and honors American communities from coast to coast which bear the name Freedom. States having towns named Freedom include California, Indiana, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The 378-foot Freedom will be the first U.S. Navy ship to carry this class designation.

Birgit Smith will serve as ship’s sponsor. She is the widow of Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith, who was killed in action in Operation Iraqi Freedom and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. The ceremony will be highlighted by Smith breaking a bottle of champagne across the bow to formally christen the ship, which is a time-honored Navy tradition. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen will deliver the principal address at the ceremony.

A fast, agile, and high-technology surface combatant, Freedom will act as a platform for launch and recovery of manned and unmanned vehicles. Its modular design will support interchangeable mission packages, allowing the ship to be reconfigured for antisubmarine warfare, mine warfare, or surface warfare missions on an as-needed basis. The LCS will be able to swap out mission packages pierside in a matter of hours, adapting as the tactical situation demands. These ships will also feature advanced networking capability to share tactical information with other Navy aircraft, ships, submarines and joint units.

Freedom is the first of two LCS seaframes being produced. Freedom is an innovative combatant designed to operate quickly in shallow water environments to counter challenging threats in coastal regions, specifically mines, submarines and fast surface craft. The LCS is capable of speeds in excess of 40 knots and can operate in water less than 20 feet deep.

Freedom will be manned by one of two rotational crews, blue and gold, similar to the rotational crews assigned to Trident submarines. The crews will be augmented by one of three mission package crews during focused mission assignments. The blue crew commanding officer is Cmdr. Donald Gabrielson, who was born in northern Minnesota and graduated from the U.S. Navy Academy in 1989. The gold crew commanding officer is Cmdr. Michael Doran, who was born in Harrisonville, Mo., and graduated from Villanova University in 1989. Upon the ship’s commissioning in 2007, Freedom will be home-ported at Naval Station San Diego, Calif.

In May 2004, the Department of Defense awarded both Lockheed Martin Corp., Maritime Systems & Sensors in Moorestown, N.J., and General Dynamics - Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, separate contract options for final system design, with options for detail design and construction of up to two flight 0 LCS ships.

In December 2004, the Navy awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. the contract for detail design and construction of the first LCS. Lockheed Martin’s teammates include Gibbs & Cox in Arlington, Va.; Marinette Marine Corp. in Marinette, Wis., where the ship is being built; and Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, La.

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USS Freedom (LCS-1), a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, is the third ship of the United States Navy to be so named.

The contract to build her was awarded to Lockheed Martin's LCS team (Lockheed Martin, Gibbs & Cox, Marinette Marine, Bollinger Shipyards) in May 2004 and will be built by Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin. Her keel was laid down on 2 June 2005.

She was sponsored by Birgit Smith, the widow of United States Army Sergeant 1st Class Paul Ray Smith, who posthumously earned the Medal of Honor in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Mrs. Smith's initials are welded on the ship's keel. Freedom was christened on 24 September 2006[1]. Freedom is expected to be delivered in December 2006.

Freedom is the first of two dramatically different LCS seaframes being produced; the other USS Independence (LCS-2) is under construction by a team led by General Dynamics's Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The ship is being built in Marinette, Wisconsin[1]. BIW is the lead design agent.

Freedom will be homeported in San Diego, California.

See USS Freedom for other ships of the same name.

General Characteristics
Displacement: 2.500 tons
Length: 379 ft (115.5 m)
Beam: 43 ft (13.1 m)
Draft: 12.1 ft (3.7 m)

Propulsion:
Two Rolls-Royce MT30 36MW gas turbines, two Isotta Fraschini diesel engines, four Rolls-Royce waterjets
Speed: 45 knots (sea state 3)
Range: 1500 nm at 50 knots, 4300 nm at 20 knots
Endurance: 21 days (336 hours)

Complement: 15 to 50 core crew, 75 mission crew

Armament:
BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles
Honeywell Mk. 50 Torpedo
NETFIRES LAM/PAM missiles in the ASuW module

Aircraft: two MH-60R/S Knighthawk, UAVs
Watercraft: 11 m RHIB, 40 ft high-speed boats

45 nós

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parece mais um Iate que um navio de guerra

P44 escreveu:parece mais um Iate que um navio de guerra

uniram o util ao agradavel

Esse LCS e' basicamente uma corvetta. Nao sabia que a USN tinha interesse neste tipo de navio. Mas, agora com as ataques por terroristas contra navios maiores assim como o USS Cole, talves isso seja a razao por interesse por parte da USN em navios assim. Provavilmente a USCG pode receber alguns destes navios tambem.

E pelos vistos, também preferem material de qualidade em vez de comprar só material americano.

Two Rolls-Royce MT30 36MW gas turbines, two Isotta Fraschini diesel engines, four Rolls-Royce waterjets
Speed: 45 knots (sea state 3)
Range: 1500 nm at 50 knots, 4300 nm at 20 knots
Endurance: 21 days (336 hours)

Complement: 15 to 50 core crew, 75 mission crew

Armament:
BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun
RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles
Honeywell Mk. 50 Torpedo
NETFIRES LAM/PAM missiles in the ASuW module

P44 escreveu:parece mais um Iate que um navio de guerra

Também achei!

45 nós??? Num navio de 2.500t???

Não esta pequeno de mais (113mts) para 2500ton????
Tampoco acho que alcance 45 nós só con 2 turbinas e as sopostas 2500ton!

Patton:

Esse LCS e' basicamente uma corvetta. Nao sabia que a USN tinha interesse neste tipo de navio. Mas, agora com as ataques por terroristas contra navios maiores assim como o USS Cole, talves isso seja a razao por interesse por parte da USN em navios assim. Provavilmente a USCG pode receber alguns destes navios tambem.

Tratando-se de navios a serem incorporados na Marinha, é provavel que executem missões fora da área americana, ou seja, em teatros longe dos EUA, certo?

Claro que oa US Coast Guard poderá receber plataformas semelhantes, embora porventura menos armadas, mas a ideia deste navio será para patrulhar as águas relativamente tranquilas dos EUA e AL, ou para enviar para teatros de acção mais "quentes"?

Parece tratar-se no fundo de uma fragata ligeira/corveta.

O que acho impressionate é imginar um navio com mais de 100 metros e 2.500 ton de deslocamento a viajar a 45 nós

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JLRC:

E pelos vistos, também preferem material de qualidade em vez de comprar só material americano.

Bom, as velhas OHP já possuiam peças (sem ser de vante ) Otto-Melara, e julgo que as peças das AB também não são americanas.

E num documentário que passou há uns tempos no canal Discovery, as turbinas de uma AB a ser construida nos estaleiros do Maine eram da Rolls-Royce.

penso eu de que...

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Comparando com os NPO Portugueses e os NPO Espanhóis como é que fica a comparação (ao nível de tonelagem, velocidade, armamento, etc.)?

Cabeça:

Ao contrário dos NPO's portugueses e espanhóis (os BAM), estes navios americanos podem ser considerados "corvetas" dado o tipo de armamento que possuem, nomeadamete mísseis, um RAM para defesa de ponto (em vez do tradicional CIWS para fragatas e cruzadores) e a peça de artilharia algo modesta na proa.

O que me parece notável é a sua grande velocidade - 45 nós.

Os nosso NPO's ficarão por uns modestos 25 nós.

Ou com alguma boa vontade poderiam ser consideradas fragatas ligeiras.

Afinal de contas o seu deslocamento aproxima-se muito do das nossas João Belo.

Como nota, os BAM espanhois têm tamanho para serem expandidos para uma categoria de corvetas, já que também eles deslocarão cerca de 2.500 ton.

Então os BAM e estes vasos são na verdade navios maiores e mais bem equipados (os Bam ao nível da electrónica e os Littoral Combat Ship tanto ao nível da electrónica como ao nível do armamento).
Isso de certeza também se vai reflectir ao nível do preço final e no número de tripulantes.
Enquanto à velocidade; bem não podemos esquecer que esta beleza tem quatro jactos de água Rolls-Royce.

Sim, Cabeça:

Enquanto so BAM foram desenhados como um navio militar para entre outras coisas ter uma peça de 76 mm na proa, os nosso NPO são essencialmente um navio de desenho civil adaptado a funções de patrulhamento.

Muito mais baratos, e com menos tripulação.

E que demoram mais tempo a ser construidos, dado o teor de limalhas que se encontram por lá