In hushed private conversations around water coolers and deep in the bowels of engine rooms, the Navy’s multi-purpose Littoral Combat Ships are being referred to by some as the “Little Crappy Ships.” There are reasons. Reduction gear problems—the gears that connect the ship’s engines to the drive shafts used to propel the ships through the water have plagued the ships. In January 2022, the U.S.S. Little Rock found herself dead in the water off the coast of Florida, immediately after coming out of the shipyard. She will probably become a training ship rather than an operational ship of the line....

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