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Fincantieri Marinette Marine will construct an ulterior Littoral Combat Ship
It will be the fourteenth ship of varying program LCS "Freedom"
October 9, 2017
The consortium of which they take part Fincantieri, through its controlled Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), and Lockheed Martin Corporation, has adjudicated a contract for the construction of an ulterior the varying LCS of "Freedom" in the within of the program Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) of US Navy. The new store clerk has a value that re-enters in the roof of cost of 584 million dollars for ship previewed from the American Conference.
LCS 27 will be the fourteenth ship of varying program LCS "Freedom", one of the main ones of shipbuilding for Marina of the United States. Today Fincantieri and Lockheed Martin have delivered five ships to the US Navy, of which the last one, Little Rock (LCS 9), on 26 September. There are currently seven unit already in various stages of construction in the site of Marinette, the only ship yard of the Midwest, and others two to follow that they will complete the program.
Program LCS is assigned in 2010 to FMM in the within of the partnership between Fincantieri and Lockheed Martin. The varying "Freedom" 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.
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