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US Navy exercises an option with Fincantieri and Lockheed Martin for the construction of LCS 25
the new naval unit will be delivered in 2020
April 1, 2016
US Navy has exercised an option with the consortium of which they take part Fincantieri, through its controlled Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), and Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the construction of a LCS of the class "Freedom" in the within of the program Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) of American Marina Militare. The new naval unit, whose construction entirely is financed, will be delivered in 2020. The contract previews the financing for the construction of the platform, integration of the systems and the phases of test.
New LCS 25 will be the eleventh unit of the class "Freedom" ordered in the within of the plan original of 2010, in addition to two units LCS delivered before 2010. The others ten ships, already delivered or in production, are: Milwaukee (LCS 5), Detroit (LCS 7), Little Rock (LCS 9), Sioux City (LCS 11), Wichita (LCS 13), Billings (LCS 15), Indianapolis (LCS 17), St.Louis (LCS 19), Minneapolis/St.Paul (LCS 21) and Copperstown (LCS 23).
Program LCS is assigned in 2010 to FMM in the within of the partnership between Fincantieri and Lockheed Martin. The class "Freedom" is one of the main programs of shipbuilding for Marina of the United States and constitutes a new generation of ships multirole average-sized, planned for activity of surveillance and coastal defense, for operations in deep waters and various types of missions in the within of the defense from threats of "asymmetric" type which silent mines, diesel submarines and fast ships of surface. Two LCS of the class "Freedom" have been employees with success in the western Pacific, third are delivered, while others seven are under construction.
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US Navy has exercised an option with the consortium of which they take part Fincantieri, through its controlled Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), and Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the construction of a LCS of the class "Freedom" in the within of the program Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) of American Marina Militare. The new naval unit, whose construction entirely is financed, will be delivered in 2020. The contract previews the financing for the construction of the platform, integration of the systems and the phases of test.
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