Sigo intentando comprender el plan.
Creo que el US LUSV / AU LOSV es diferente a estos 4 US existentes que llegaron a Australia.
https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/in ... australia/Había 6 empresas para prototipos LUSV.
https://news.usni.org/2020/09/04/6-comp ... ce-vehicleEste es un nuevo buque en el presupuesto de EE.UU. 2024.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/weapons/R45757.pdf"LUSV. The Navy envisions LUSVs as being 200 feet to 300 feet in length and having full load displacements of 1,000 tons to 2,000 tons, which would make them the size of a corvette. (i.e., a ship larger than a patrol craft and smaller than a frigate).
The Navy wants LUSVs to be low-cost, high-endurance, reconfigurable ships with ample capacity for carrying various modular payloads—particularly anti-surface warfare (ASuW) and strike payloads, meaning principally anti-ship and landattack missiles. Each LUSV could be equipped with a vertical launch system (VLS) with 16 to 32 missile-launching tubes.
Although referred to as unmanned vehicles, LUSVs might be more accurately described as optionally or lightly manned ships, because they might sometimes have a few onboard crew members, particularly in the nearer term as the Navy works out LUSV enabling technologies and operational concepts. The Navy has been using LUSV prototypes to develop LUSV operational concepts. The Navy’s FY2024 budget submission programs the procurement of production LUSVs through the Navy’s shipbuilding account, with the first LUSV to be procured in FY2025 at a cost of $315.0 million,
the next two in FY2026 at a combined cost of $522.5 million (i.e., an average of about $261.3 million each), the next three in FY2027 at a combined cost of $722.7 million (i.e., an average of $240.9 million each), and another three in FY2028 at a combined cost of $737.2 million (i.e., an average of about $245.7 million each)."
El de Australia va a estar "basado" en el LUSV estadounidense. Puede haber más diferencias que el nombre, LOSV. No hay muchos detalles todavía. Es posible que nos asociemos en el diseño final.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/ ... d-warships