Edhat Staff
By the edhat staff
The U.S. Navy will bring the USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) into active fleet on April 1 of this year.
A commissioning ceremony is scheduled to take place at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme.
The USS Santa Barbara is an independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS) of the United States Navy. It is the 32nd ship of the type, and 16th of the class, which is inter-numbered with the Freedom-class littoral combat ships.
With 35 LCSs now active or planned, the type is the Navy’s second largest number of surface warfare ships in production, next only to its guided missile destroyers.
Santa Barbara was built in Mobile, Alabama by Austal USA. Her keel was laid down on October 27, 2020, she was christened on October 16, 2021 and launched on November 13 2021. Following the completion of sea trials on June 3 2022, the ship was accepted by the Navy on July 21, 2022.
This is the third US Navy ship to be named for the city of Santa Barbara. The first was a freighter which had a brief history with the Navy, in 1918 and 1919.
The second was USS Santa Barbara (AE-28), an Kilauea-class ammunition ship that was commissioned in 1970. It traveled to Cuba, the Mediterrenean, and Pearl Harbor before retiring in 2006 and being sold for scrap in 2007.
USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) [Photo: U.S. Navy]
No thanks, name it something else, we’re good. Our nation’s military complex is out of control.
As unfortunate as it is that we have to spend our wealth on things like this, it’s the expertise of our military industrial complex that is helping to preserve democracy around the world.
Too bad so many in our own country don’t value our democracy, and instead opt for demagoguery, bigotry, and violence.
How’s that democracy working out in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, etc. – worth the millions of dead civilians? Our military should be preserving democracy for the United States not imposing our will, instigating coups, and installing hand picked governments in foreign countries.
Well, as Neville amply demonstrated, your opinion is erroneous and dangerous.
@ 4:14 which part is erroneous, the millions of dead civilians in foreign countries we’ve sent our military to, the coups instigated by our government, or the instillation of new governments in foreign countries?
See? You don’t know, and can’t figure it out.
@5:47- Please inform us! I assume you are also educated and have been there? You sound like you know what actually happens, so please share.
Anyone who knows anything about the history of the origins of WWII in Europe would know. Some people, however, have deficient educations or cognition.
I don’t like the design. Back in my day, war ships looked like war ships and space ships looked like space ships. What is it with this new “future agenda?” Just more propagandization by you know who to push us into the future. Not for me. The futurist looks can walk right on by. I prefer the old things.
Yeah, the design change is just more propaganda by ‘you know who’, and doesn’t have anything to do with the flat surfaces reducing the ship’s radar signature and trimaran hull maximizing the ship’s speed and efficiency…… Who exactly is this ‘who’ you speak of that you believe has so much power they can incorporate their own propaganda driven aesthetic design into modern Navy combat ships that are literally 20 years in the making? You have severe case of TDS for that astounding thought to even cross your head.
That is one BAD-Azz looking warship! Almost like a stealth fighter jet with all of those structural angles to cut down on the radar signature. Imagine that thing coming at you at over 50 MPH on the open ocean….YIKES! I would be proud to serve on a ship named after our city and chase down some bad guys who are itchin’ to go to Davy Jones’ locker (bottom of the sea).
Those concerned about Russia in Ukraine trying to take back a portion of land where the locals identify and speak Russian…CLUE IN. CHINA is the Global threat to us all. They are the supplier of infectous diseases that have been utilized against the free world and hold all the power to so many of our daily resources- From PX drugs, Most of our car/truck maintenance parts and virtually anything used in our homes. The threat in the South China Sea and Taiwan is REAL and it’s not going away. I’m sure the USS Santa Barbara will be deployed near Taiwan sooner than later.
COAST – it’s ok (and very doable for adults) to be concerned about both Russia AND China. If you think Russia isn’t a threat to global security and stability just because you don’t oppose the invasion of Ukraine, I have a bridge to sell you.
That is one BAD-Azz looking warship! Almost like a stealth fighter jet with all of those structural angles to cut down on the radar signature. Imagine that thing coming at you at over 50 MPH on the open ocean….YIKES! I would be proud to serve on a ship named after our city and chase down some bad guys who are itchin’ to go to Davy Jones’ locker (bottom of the sea).
A pleasure cruise, with the added attraction of a chance to kill fellow humans. You definitely have infantile and naive aspirations.
Quite the opposite of a killing machine pleasure boat (until necessary). I remember when the Village People came out with their hit song ‘In The Navy’, which is one of my favorite songs of all time. Their opening chorus describes what the US Navy is all about quite accurately:
“Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet.”
Something to ponder if youi’re a senior in high school and not really prepared or willing to go on to further education….that would be to join the US Navy and maybe land a gig on the USS Santa Barbara. Much more educational, exciting, and valuable than taking Psych, Sociology, History, and so on at CC for some of us.
That would be pretty cool to see this ship in our harbor! You know, despite me only liking “old” and traditional ships lol….