32 vs 4

Sal is like a championship skeet shooter.

Here is another LCS moment brought to you by the failed DOD management method:

LCS-1 was in service in Sept. 2008. Go ahead and comp her the time for first in class. That was five year and nine months ago. We now have commissioned up to LCS-4. That is four ships in that time frame from two yards.

Perspective.

The OLIVER HAZARD PERRY Class Frigate, the ship that in many respects LCS is replacing, was first commissioned in DEC of 1977, USS OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (FFG-7). Five years and nine months later, working through two shipyards, we had commissioned up to USS DOYLE (FFG-39).

Yes kids, 32 ships later. Three of the 32 were built for Australia. By that point, the ships had already racked up many real world deployments, performing all their Primary Mission Areas - with all their weapons systems installed and working.

32 vs. 4.
Deployable vs. Whatever.
Warfighter vs. Excusemonger