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> Admiral Gilday: The [Constellation-class] frigates would be the gap-filler there with respect to ASW.
> Those requirements for that ASW package for [the] LCS were developed back in 2008 against a diesel [submarine] threat in the littorals.
> And then our minds shifted to we’ll be using these things in the deep blue ocean.
> First of all, the ASW Modules just didn’t pan out; the VDS [Variable Depth Sonar] didn’t work as it should.
> LCS is as noisy as an aircraft carrier and so there are some big challenges there that we should have pick up on way earlier.
> And for me it got to the point where I’ve been looking at the data on the ASW package for the last year-and-a-half to two years and it got to the point where a decision needed to be made and I wouldn’t put more money against it and that left the future of those ships open.
