This ship was just R&D, not for FAC project . In a suitable project this ship is actually will be quite good and impressive.
Launchers are foreigner made, directly thought to be mounted ( 3 years ago) . But at the moment roketsan already builts such launchers for SSM missiles.
Aliminum is the material used for aerospace engineering, high impact endurance and good strength/weight ratio. Its durable against impacts as well as steel ,because there are variety of aliminum alloy, as well as there are for steel. Problem about aliminum is, its sensitive to temperature so its not durable against explosions as much as steel. But thats the point, after the explosive got reached to plate of steel or aliminum, it doesnt matter ,it will give damage.
Survability isnt about the material going to be broken or not, its about whether ship will survive after damaged, how much damage it can receive. LCS is designed to be avoid damage ,and focused on intence protection of ship. Freedoom,doesnt have such a survability issue because its regular monohull, while Independence is a trimaran and has survability issues .
Material problem emerged in LCS indepence is because of application of steel foundation for machinery , it causes a corrosion in aliminum . Because of the lack of the protective material , this happened. Later they solved it with anode-catode application and finally used active system to neutralize current between steel and aliminum.
All materials has handicaps and advantages, just because steel is applied for long term of time ,a well known and easily weldable ,formable material. Aliminum has hardships in building, high cost to process.
Denizde ikmal muhabere destek gemisi ( dimdeg) designed by Adik.
*1) impact and explosion are 2 different terms.
*2) LCS ,littoral combat ship ,not designed to fight in intense combat conditions. As well as CVN's are not designed for such condition.
*3) main reason that LCS got criticized is over budget ,and not working modular design ( with fastly mountable modules),and not manuvarable as its expected for piers