LCS-3 USS Fort Worth
Dedicated to Ethan/Gx
USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is a Freedom-class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She is the first ship to be named after Fort Worth, Texas, the 13th-largest city in the United States. She was commissioned at Galveston, Texas on 22 September 2012. She has been assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron One.
In February 2020, it was announced that the Navy planned to retire Fort Worth and her sister ship Freedom after eight and twelve years of service respectively. She was scheduled to be decommissioned 31 March 2021. However, as of April 2022, the ship is still active and in commission, and Congress has blocked the Navy from retiring the ship in Fiscal Year 2022.
Fort Worth departed her homeport of San Diego on 17 November 2014 for a 16-month rotational deployment to Singapore in support of the U.S. Navy's strategic rebalance to the Pacific. The ship is the first LCS to deploy under the "3-2-1" manning concept, swapping fully trained crews roughly every four months. Under this concept three rotational crews will support two LCS ships and maintain one deployed ship. Fort Worth also deploys with an aviation detachment from Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 35 (HSM-35) "Magicians", the U.S. Navy's first composite expeditionary helicopter squadron. The aviation detachment will consist of one MH-60R Seahawk helicopter and one Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned autonomous helicopter. Fort Worth reached the 7th Fleet area of responsibility on 4 December 2014. The ship is expected to remain in the area until March 2016. It will be the longest deployment of a U.S. warship in 42 years, since the aircraft carrier USS Midway was under way for 327 days in 1973. The long deployment is to stress the Navy’s logistics capabilities and identify potential problems. Once the deployment is completed, Freedom will take the ship's place, returning to the area again.
Controls:
Throttle: Drive corvette
AG1+Throttle: Drive corvette reverse
AG2+VTOL+Trim: Activate and control Mk.110 Cannon
AG3+VTOL+Trim: Activate and control Mk.49 RIM-116 RAM launcher
AG4+Trim: Activate and control 2x Mk.44 Bushmaster guns
Yaw: Steer corvette
Specifications
General Characteristics
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- Wingspan 63.3ft (19.3m)
- Length 388.1ft (118.3m)
- Height 124.2ft (37.9m)
- Empty Weight N/A
- Loaded Weight 437,496lbs (198,445kg)
Performance
- Power/Weight Ratio 0.123
- Wing Loading 121.6lbs/ft2 (593.7kg/m2)
- Wing Area 3,597.8ft2 (334.3m2)
- Drag Points 149
Parts
- Number of Parts 339
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 1,060
MW(doge)
FREEDOOM!!!
@M107AA12BFG50 Both are great, while KRI Golok looks like a child of Independence and Zumwalt, but lack of landing pad
@M107AA12BFG50 Toasty ship
@WolfHunter9111 what about K R I Golok? Best ship ever
Ah yes! The Freedom Class. Next thing would be there is an Independence Class too?