A U.S. Navy warship has paused its deployment to South America because of a coronavirus outbreak, the Navy said Friday.
The USS Milwaukee, a litorral combat ship, is staying in port at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, where it had stopped for a scheduled port visit. It began its deployment from Mayport, Fla., on December 14 and was heading into the U.S. Southern Command region.
I read that Wisconsin is getting cleaned out. What say you?
Former navy pede. May not be comms...LCS are meant to operate with incredibly small crews. They are more automated than other ships. I believe min crew was about 65 and max is 100 so if they had even 15% out it would be tough to complete mission.
I might be being really dumb right now, but doesn't all this automation make the ships too vulnerable to EMPs in case the enemy tried to launch amphibian operations on american shorelines ?