Second US LCS to arrive in Asia end of 2014
The US Navy will deploy a second Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to the Asia-Pacific region at the end of the year.
Speaking at the Asian Naval Warfare conference in Kuala Lumpur on 10 September, the commander of the US 7th Fleet, VAdm Robert Thomas, said that he was expecting to travel to Singapore to greet the USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) in January 2015.
‘What I want to do with Fort Worth is some of the things that we didn’t get to with Freedom [LCS 1],’ Thomas explained. In particular the USN is hoping to use the next deployment to expand the operational envelope
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