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The yard Fincantieri Marinette Marine has delivered the LCS Detroit
It is the fourth unit of the class "realized Freedom" for US Navy
August 16, 2016
Friday slid in the ship yard of Marinette of the Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) is delivered to US Navy a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) that it will take the name of USS Detroit. Ship (LCS 7) is realized in the within of the program Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), consortium guided from Lockheed Martin Corporation of which they take part Fincantieri, through its controlled Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), the society of naval architecture Gibbs & Cox and beyond 500 American companies,
USS Detroit is fourth unit LSC of the class "delivered Freedom" to Marina statuntense from the consortium and takes part of a plan started in the 2010 that comprises 11 ships, all already financed, in addition to the two units delivered before the 2010 (Freedom - LCS 1 and Forth Worth - LCS 3). The others 10 ships, already delivered or in production, are: Milwaukee (LCS 5), 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), Cooperstown (LCS 23) and LCS 25.
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