U.S. Navy Splits the Baby on the LCS Contract

Both Lockheed-Martin's conventional design and Austal's Trimaran got contracts for 10 ships, at $538 million, without mission modules, which means not much in the way of meaningful sensors or weapons.

For a ship that weighs as much as a frigate, but is as lightly armed as a corvette, but has the advantage of being able to change tasks, by swapping out mission modules, going from anti-sub warfare, to anti-surface warfare, counter-min, ISR, etc. if it can find its way to suitably equipped port.

Yes, "It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!"

Yeah, the idea sounds really stupid to me too.