The US Navy basically admitted that the Littoral Combat Ship looks like a massive failure

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After 16 years and billions of dollars, the Navy may have finally acknowledged that its Littoral Combat Ship program looks like a miserable failure. 

The service "may not" deploy any of the dozen small surface combatants this year despite officials' previous plans to deploy several to join the 7th and 5th Fleets in Singapore and Bahrain respectively, the U.S. Naval Institute first reported on April 11. 
 http://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-littoral-combat-ship-problems-2018-4