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Fixing LCS machinery could require rebuilding the ship

A Littoral Combat Ship question asks whether unreliable machinery could be corrected cheaply enough to retain the hulls.

Littoral Combat Ship Propulsion Ship Maintenance US Navy

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Question

Could LCS machinery be fixed cheaply enough to avoid scrapping hulls?

Short answer

Not cheaply; the correction would effectively rebuild the hull and propulsion installation.

Notes

Solving the machinery problem would amount to rebuilding the hull and engine installation. That scale of intervention explains why relatively young ships can still be poor repair candidates.