LCS Montgomery Sustains Second Hull Crack in a Month

What is the deal here? Evidently there are SERIOUS design flaws with these vessels. No amount of crew "retraining" is going to cure a bad design.

I got my degree in Naval Architecture from the US Naval Academy in 82. There was a "style difference" between US warship design and Soviet warship design. The new hull forms and lower radar profile designs appear to be following the old Soviet style. The soviet warships looked cool, but were never really designed as all-season blue water warships. Flat plate designs are more prone to "slamming" from wave action, and poorer sea keeping characteristics. This increases vibrational stresses on flat plate hulls that are inherently less resistant to metal fatigue than curved plates.

Hope it has a thirty year warranty