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Delivered a Littoral Combat Ship constructed in the yard Fincantieri Marinette Marine
Currently in the plant there are seven unit in various stages of realization
August 5, 2019
In the within of the program Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the consortium of which takes part Fincantieri, through its controlled Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), and Lockheed Martin Corporation, has delivered Indianapolis (LCS 17) to US Navy near the American ship yard of Marinette (Wisconsin). Fincantieri and Lockheed Martin are engaged at full speed in the production and today they have delivered nine ships to the US Navy, of which two this year. Currently seven units in various stages of construction and test in the yard of Marinette are others.
The contract for the realization of program LCS is assigned in 2010 to FMM, the within of the partnership with Lockheed Martin, world leader in the field of the defense. Draft of one of the main programs of shipbuilding for Marina of the United States and is formed 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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