What's so awful about the LCS platform? I hear people dogging it frequently but I don't grok why it's so bad. I've heard about the hull cracks, but that could happen with any ship. People seem to have animosity to the notion of a coastal / shore craft.
I find it rather amusing that the Navy has more Littoral craft than the Coast Guard, but then again the Coast Guard doesn't engage in shore combat (yet... until the government finds some way to benefit from shelling US beachgoers).