this doesn't make any sense to me. only reason i see littoral as an advantage is low cost high production and since it's us tech it's not low cost. a lot of navy wonks don't like our new littoral as they're littoral not blue water. idc if they go blue water i just don't like the price tag. imo quantity + quality is needed and costs must drop. i'd rather spam littoral vs. littoral than lose a destroyer to littoral in china. if we're talking about swarm this makes sense to me. the battlegroups are all getting replicator so floating cities will have their place. i don't know why i didn't think of our littoral fleets being used in scs and for island hopping. imo more reason to sell them cheap to japan. i thought they were just going to be our coastal defense fleet which never made sense as we have no one who can challenge us anywhere, let alone our own hemisphere. what i'm really excited for if we're discussing littoral and swarm is ship production. pmurt said he was going to onshore this and make it big (rumors are also that korea is involved in some). this makes us steel make sense. and then today when he was talking about greenland he dropped that we are planning forty ice breakers instead of just three we had scheduled. which means they are going to rebuild out shipyards and build new ones. which means spamming your littorals in swarms too. :)
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