Beautiful. Coast guard has no ugly ships and the bravest of the brave.

The problem is that peacetime can change to war overnight. We are depending on the idea that the enemy will give us the time to ream the vessels with more capable weapons. The predecessor cutters, with are are much smaller and leds capable than the Bertholf, at least had a 76mm main battery that gave it some shore bombardment and self-defense capability. Given her range, speed, electronics, and aircraft, she was clearly designed to fulfill the role of a frigate in most other navies but without the weapons needed for the role. The Canadian Halifax class frigates are about the same size and has the same ridiculous 57mm main battery. They at least have some missiles for self-defence. something these cutters lack. It just seems crazy to have a ship this large and valuable with a main battery that allows an opponent with a 76mm or, worse, 127mm main battery, to lie out of range and just batter you to pieces with no way to make a response.

It looks like a navy destroyer disguised as Coast Guard Cutter. Nice ship!

The Coast Guard does more and more with less and less, eventually they'll be doing everything with nothing.

+austinismyfirstname yes they are. Remember those landing craft that hit Okinawa and Normandy? Those were all gaurdsmen. They were also heavily involved in Vietnam (there's a whole documentary here on youtube about it). The most physically exceptional and driven garudsmen can apply to work in tandem with DOD special operations (IE they get sent to BUDS and SEAL school)

This is a big step up from the Storis. I thought polar class was great this is great. Enjoy best of sailing.

I love them cutters. I went from a 210 go that and the difference is mind blowing

Damn! I wanna go back in to go on one of those!! I got out in 1970. Does the Coast Guard take 72 year old's?

When the were Dept. of Transportation, we used to call the Coast Guard a tiny little division of Amtrak. Still loved the puddle pirates though.

Still under funded! Give the CG more assets! 🇺🇸👊🏻

@Seqtopus Yup its for water to air defense:D

I actually think it has beautiful lines personally, maybe that USCG paint just makes everything look better lol.

Semper Paratus lives. Very nice ship.

I served aboard Cutter Vigorous (WMEC-627) from 1979-1981. One of my biggest life regrets was getting out of the Coast Guard in 1982. I'm 59 years old today, and would re-enlist in a heart beat. I can still get up & down a berthing ladder, and can still cook some great chow! On Vigorous, our Ops. Berthing area housed 16 men. Oh, the pranks we used to play on each other. Taking a roll of duct tape, and rolling it as tight as possible around the Corpsman's padlock on his personal locker. We were only trying to keep him away from his cigarettes. He smoked too much anyway. Good times!

Always Ready

Was on the Gallatin! These NSC cutters look sweet!

Go USCG! SemperParatus

Yes they do have the Phalynx(which could just as easily be sea ram). They also supposedly have 4 50cal MGs plus at least 2 7,62 MGs. That's good for the potential suicide boat(s). The 57mm and phalynx give it a respectable anti-ship missile defence capability considering it's not intended for high intensity combat. Of course any pirate/drug boat would be toast.

Great!

thats an impressive speed

I hope the CIC is way better than the crap we had from 88 to 91. Too bad it will be wasted during ALPATs.

Seems to be the direction of the Navy and CG now. It will probably be vary important if the shit really does hit the fan with Russia and China. CG Cutters I think have always, by their appearance at least, been set up to make room for combat upgrades in case the Navy needs the extra firepower. At least thats how I have always interpreted the CG's military role. Perhaps I am reading too much into it and I will admit I am only guessing based on what little I know, but at least in my mind it would make sense.

I serve on 3 ships CG White Sumac, CGC Vigortant & Nantucket Lightship.

during war time the coast guard comes under department of the Navy, used to nowadays ???

I kinda resembles the Australian Armidale class patrol boat

Don't these cutters have Phalynx cannons as well?

It will be changed to FF(X)!

Whos giving squids sharp objects!?! sharp objects and swabbies, DontMix! Tons on the bridge.

Does the Coast Guard get deployed like the Air Force, Army and Marines do?

I’ll go with ya David if they’ll take a 69 year old radioman

It would have been nice to see the vid as a Coast Guard boost instead of just a Grumman ad.

...Coast Guard ships don't need to look mean and intimidating like the Navy ships because one of it's missions is search and rescue... of course, it's other major mission which is interdiction, pre-occupied most of its time nowadays...

austinismyfirstname yes that is what the coast guard Deployable Operations Group is for

>100+ crew. What do all those people do? I know these ships are big, but Jesus! I worked on a Marine Scotland fisheries protection vessel once, and we had less than 30 crew on board. Fair enough, we didn't have weapons or helicopters, but still...

That's an Aegis combat destroyer... lol

The gallatin had way more fire power a 5inch 51 two twenty mm 9 50cals and torpedoes plus one call and your gone try going out in hurricanes I been through two we had to go in the shipyards after ship was destroyed !!! We also have a chopper

Pascagoula is a mess. BUT, best there build the NSC's? International Customers.

Where's the anti-missile Gatling gun

A 57 mm gun for main armament on a valuable 4500 ton ship. No torpedos. No antisubmarine armament. No anti air missiles. No land attack missiles. No shore bombardment capability. This is not going to end well.

japan i ask you hep the for more wrship for the pjilipine about gulo for sout china sea

I wonder if the Coast Guard still uses those old Garand Rifles that we used?

9:00, is that a rocket launcher?

If they have a shower(and I'm sure they do) it can be coed..lol So can the berths if they dare.

they need to replace tomahawk cruise missiles on it/

I'd rather have THE CHASE! (378)! Better WEAPONS!

The Legend Class is a 4,500 ton, $700M disaster waiting to happen. It wouldn't last 5 mins against a 500 ton missile boat. Hamilton Class was better armed than this thing. A single 57mm is too weak and too limited in range for effective NSFS, while also having too slow a fire rate to deal with a swarm boat attack. A single CIWS and 6 machine guns are the only other armament. She needs Harpoons and VLS to fire land attack and anti-air defense missiles. And up the gun to at least a 76mm super rapid. Maybe a 127mm. Both with Vulcano ammunition. The addition of at least 2 bushmaster 25mm canons would help with swarm defense, though 4 would be even better.

Notice how they talk so much about accomodations and number of personnel on board? Instead of talking about the central issue of high performance and breakthroughs in hull design. This is at least a 50 knot ship. Very fast. Who cares about how many personnel are on board? Who really cares. Talk about performance.