German Navy's new state-of-the-art warship sails into tech trouble

Makes one wonder why China, NOKO, and Iran aren’t identifying these technological issues.

LCDR (Join to see) Very costly ship, wouldn't you say? And what is with them using a two crew component of a ship while deployed? I can understand Subs doing this as they complete deployment, return to home port, re-man with the next crew, and re-deploy on a NEW mission. Taking an entire crew off and replacing it while deployed seems to be counter productive. The new crew has no experience level on what the prior crew encountered and how they were handled. It would be like erasing the memory of the present crew and start all over again. What are they going to do with a green crew? Before we deploy a ship, we go through rigorous REFTRA, and after that they deploy (at least that is what we did when I was in). I also noted they could expand the crew by 70 sailors to 190 vice the 120 the ship is planning to run. Now, that begs the question, what duties would the extra 70 sailors do that the original crew was already doing or not doing? I can only hope our Navy will not think this is a way to go to sea!

I'm not tech savvy enough to elaborate on these issues. I do good to email and text ! What I do see is a rather overweight frigate, that a modern day highly sofisticated torpedo or a French excocet missile strike could potentially send a lot of sailors to an unnecessary plunder. Definitely a lot of $$ spent on technology, which more than likely could have been more wisely spent on building up more of what has sustained their fleet but coupled with the latest technological innovation. Thus modernizing the fleet and it's capability in it's efforts to defend themselves and the open sea' s. Bigger doesn't always work, overmaning the ship or resulting in crew swaps isn't necessary on a Surface Warfare command ! Everything has growing pains, but at what expense? Yes I agree the cost is high on new construction of a fleet, but what's important here $$ or one's defense against all enemies of our great nation? In retrospect it always comes down to politics (congress) or $$ well spent on rebuilding what Clinton destroyed (600 ship fleet to 1/2) of our capability and the over extending of the men and women tasked to ensure these afloat unit's are able to meet a threat head on consistently.