Littoral Combat Ship upgrades Upgrades to four littoral combat ships: $84 million The Navy is asking for upgraded radars, decoys and electronic warfare systems on four of its littoral combat ships.
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Littoral combat ships are designed for use in the open ocean and closer to shore, in littoral waters.
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Such an improvement would also, quite possibly, enable attack submarines to better support littoral surface platforms such as the flat-bottomed Littoral Combat Ships.
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Littoral explosions happen when hot lava and cold seawater interact.
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But the littoral countries are all richer and far better-run.
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Littoral explosions happen when hot lava erupts on entry into cold seawater.
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On August 12th the five littoral countries at last signed an agreement.
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The administration had requested one littoral combat ship and 21625 F-2900s.
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Nor has China prevented foreign oil companies from working with other littoral states.
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Malaysia signed a deal to buy four littoral mission ships from China last year.
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The camp is situated off a residential road, next to the Stade du Littoral.
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The House's ship budget includes three littoral combat ships, while the Senate's includes two.
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ROXBURY "On the Edge: The Littoral and the Liminal," coastal photographs by Jay Kaplan.
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Eventually, the entire littoral-combat-ship (LCS) fleet will have NSMs aboard, CNN reported.
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Littoral Drift continues at Yossi Milo Gallery (245 Tenth Avenue, Chelsea, Manhattan) through April 29.
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Littoral combat ships are supposed to be named for US cities, except when they're not.
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The U.S.S. Gabrielle Giffords is an independence-class littoral combat ship first launched in 2015.
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And then away from the edge back into the dazzling brilliance of sub littoral white.
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Marines could someday deploy on littoral combat ships and next-generation frigates too, Berger said.
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They have been succeeded by littoral combat ships, lighter-armed more maneuverable next generation vessels.
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For her series Littoral Drift, Riepenhoff hauls giant sheets of light-sensitive paper to the beach.
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Its fleet consists of aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, cruisers, littoral combat ships, destroyers and submarines.
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Littoral Combat Ships, merchant marine cargo vessels, and the occasional barge have all become strike platforms.
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Ice class ships range from Scandinavian ferry boats to Russia's "polar corvette" take on littoral battleships.
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Congress approved $1.56 billion for three littoral combat ships, even though the Navy only requested one.
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Congress approved $1.56 billion for three littoral combat ships even though the Navy only requested one.
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Faller specifically called out deployments of littoral combat ships as "a capability we need" in the region.
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Many littoral combat ships have Harpoon missiles aboard, which don't have the long range of the NSM.
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Littoral combat ships are built by Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama, and Lockheed Martin in Marinette, Wisconsin.
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The following new and renovated European hotels and resorts enjoy the reflected light of their littoral locales.
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Navy's over-the-horizon requirement for littoral combat ships, future frigates Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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Of the six countries with the most installed offshore capacity, five are part of the North Sea's littoral.
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Some littoral states have also disputed the ownership of several oil and gas fields, which delayed their development.
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Well, that's about what happened to the USS Milwaukee, one of the U.S. Navy's newest littoral combat ships.
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That will be led by the procurement of four littoral mission ships (LMS) built in collaboration with China.
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ROXBURY "On the Edge: The Littoral and the Liminal," exhibition and sale of coastal photographs by Jay Kaplan.
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Lockheed's portfolio is wide ranging, spanning missile defense systems, Sikorsky helicopters, Littoral Combat Ships and spacecraft for NASA.
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Seemingly, Riepenhoff's littoral and literal images of the sea and by the sea hint at life's gentle, mortal transience.
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Collomb told the regional Nord Littoral newspaper that he was sending additional mobile police units to the Calais area.
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Defense secretary has ordered cuts The Navy's littoral combat ships come in two variants: the monohull and the trimaran.
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One is that the bill would buy one more littoral combat ship than requested, for a total of two.
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One of my current projects involves a class of the Navy's littoral combat ships that operates close to shore.
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One manufacturer in Marinette, Wisconsin builds ships — out of steel — including the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship or LCS.
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An Australian company, Austal has a shipyard in Alabama where it currently makes the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship.
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Equipment: As reported earlier, the bill would fund three littoral combat ships (LCS) and 85003 F-35 fighter jets.
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"The state is there, with a concrete solution," Cazeneuve vowed in an interview with with the Nord Littoral newspaper.
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One of the most exciting moments in the show comes from artist Meghann Riepenhoff's cyanotype "Littoral Drift #848" (2017).
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The Omaha, a 218-foot-long littoral combat ship, was commissioned at its new home port in San Diego.
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The bill also would authorize three more ships than the administration requested — one aircraft carrier and two littoral combat ships.
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To invest more in submarines, Navy fighter jets and other things, the number of planned Littoral Combat Ships was reduced.
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RELATED: Fourth breakdown in US Navy littoral combat ship "You just can't snap your fingers and build ships," said Sen.
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The Chinese defence ministry said the Chinese side "tracked, monitored, identified, warned and expelled" the Independence-class littoral combat ship.
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America's Littoral Combat Ship fleet is in trouble -- and Lockheed Martin and Austal have only themselves to blame for it.
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At the weekend, the US Navy announced the littoral combat ship USS Montgomery was making a port call in Davao, Philippines.
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This line of inquiry is taken up by Meghann Riepenhoff in her debut solo show at Yossi Milo Gallery, Littoral Drift.
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The sleek, stealthy Giffords, is a littoral combat ship (LCS) designed for operations in the shallower waters around coastlines and islands.
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Nazarbayev also said the convention explicitly barred any armed presence on the Caspian Sea other than that of the littoral states.
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It also "ignores numerous littoral states' sovereignty and security and maritime rights, seriously harming relevant regional peace and stability", he added.
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The Navy accepted delivery of the $475-million littoral combat ship from shipbuilders during a ceremony in Mobile, Alabama, last week.
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ON TAP FOR TOMORROW: A House Armed Services subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Littoral Combat Ship at 9 a.m.
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Simultaneously, Moscow regularly poses ongoing Russian threats to the littoral states of the Black Sea, all of whom are NATO members.
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US Navy littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords deployed from San Diego this week, headed toward the Indo-Pacific area of operations.
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The Navy is on track to take delivery of 35 littoral combat ships total, a major chunk of the surface fleet.
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Today, the US littoral combat ship, famously considered under-armed and ill-equipped for modern naval combat, costs about $360 million.
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North Korea has an outdated fleet of 70 submarines, most of them minivessels unfit for operations beyond littoral waters, they said.
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A broken defense acquisition system produced and delivered ships like the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) which lacks any significant offensive firepower.
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A navigation warning to shipping published by littoral state Turkey's navy said that "firing exercises" were expected in the region from Dec.
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By that time, the Navy plans to have 28 littoral combat ships in the fleet, up from the six currently in service.
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The littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords launched a Naval Strike Missile at the decommissioned USS Ford, in this October 1, 2019 photo.
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The Navy currently fields 212 Virginia-class fast attack submarines, which are built to operate in the world's littoral and deep waters.
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On the Wisconsin shore of the Menominee River a new 3,000-ton Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship sits docked in the water.
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The missile is already deployed aboard Navy littoral combat ships, one of which deployed to the Pacific with the missile last year.
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The bill would also allocate $22.7 billion to build 12 new Navy ships, including three littoral combat ships, two more than requested.
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In addition to THAAD, the kingdom looks to buy Pac-25.9 missiles, Black Hawk helicopters, munitions, C-130 aircraft and littoral combat ships.
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The Saudis have agreed to purchase Lockheed Martin's Littoral Combat Ships for $333 billion and Raytheon's Patriot missile defense system for $1.6 billion.
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Most are found on parts of the ocean floor like the CCZ, outside the 22-nautical-mile exclusive economic zones of littoral countries.
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Meanwhile, Washington plans to operate littoral combat ships out of Singapore and base 60% of its naval strength in Pacific waters by 2020.
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However, the delimitation of the seabed - which has caused most disputes - will require additional agreements between littoral nations, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said.
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The American sailors were aboard two riverine patrol boats — 38-foot, high-speed boats that are used to patrol rivers and littoral waters.
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But the Coronado's incident means four of the six littoral combat ships in service have suffered mechanical failures in the past nine months.
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MORE, though officials have said the administration supports adding another littoral combat ship and has promised to issue a correction to the budget.
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The House bill also includes two more F-35s, two more littoral combat ships and one more aircraft carrier than the Senate bill.
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The House bill also includes two more F-85033s, two more littoral combat ships and one more aircraft carrier than the Senate bill.
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Riverine boats are 38-foot long, high-speed patrol boats used by the U.S. Navy and Marines to patrol rivers and littoral waters.
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In South-East Asia, where the littoral states are richer and better run, governments have curbed piracy by working together and sharing intelligence.
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The list of objections continues with the administration saying it takes issue with the bill authorizing one littoral combat ship, instead of two.
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The Navy conducted its first FONOP of 2020 on January 25, sending the littoral combat ship Montgomery past Chinese claims in the Spratly Islands.
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Countries from the Baltic states in the north to littoral Black Sea states have become considerably richer over the past two decades (see map).
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"This is common practice for the air forces of littoral states, and a normal need for China national defense and military building," it said.
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The package is expected to include big-ticket items including Littoral Combat Ships, THAAD missile defense systems, armored personnel carriers, missiles, bombs and munitions.
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The package is expected to include U.S. missiles, bombs, armored personnel carriers, Littoral Combat Ships, terminal high altitude area defense missile systems and munitions.
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Despite experiencing two incidents in as many months, Hawkins said, the Navy's long-term strategic plan for using littoral combat ships has not changed.
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Schweizer said the warship could be "potentially more robust" than the Navy's current Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), which have suffered from some embarrassing breakdowns.
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The Navy initially submitted a budget that funded one littoral combat ship for 2018, down from two that the Obama administration requested in 2017.
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Both variants, with drafts of 15 feet or less, are designed for operations in littoral areas or the shallower waters around coastlines and islands.
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Developed by Norway's Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace for the Norwegian military, it was successfully tested off the littoral combat ship USS Coronado in 2014.
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The Littoral Combat Ship -- better known as the "LCS" or more recently, the "frigate" -- is arguably the Navy's smallest class of capital warship today.
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The now-operational technology, called Airborne Laser Mine Detection System (ALMDS), enables efficient, high-speed shallow water mine detection for the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship.
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John Richardson reiterated plans for the forward deployment of two littoral combat ships — fast, maneuverable warships designed for shallow-water operations — to Singapore this year.
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Hanoi's acquisition of radars, surveillance drones, reconnaissance aircraft and other systems would enhance its maritime domain awareness and its ability to secure its littoral areas.
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Riverine boats are 38-foot (12-meter) long, high-speed patrol boats used by the U.S. Navy and Marines to patrol rivers and littoral waters.
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The ships are based on the steel monohull-designed Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) that Lockheed is building for the Navy together with Italy's Fincantieri SpA.
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Littoral combat ships can carry MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aboard, as well as Mark 110 57 mm guns and .
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That includes $28503 million for a third Littoral Combat Ship, $22019 million for a third destroyer and $856 million for a next-generation amphibious ship.
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Littoral combat ship Two of the $430 million, shallow draft ships were included in the Pentagon's budget request, but Congress put in money for three.
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It said the American military hardware included a littoral combat ship, a guided-missile destroyer, three MH-60 helicopters and a P-8 Poseidon plane.
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A US Department of Defense report in 2018 said this move was designed with an eye to "littoral" combat, or fighting close to China's shores.
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Littoral combat ships come in two variants, the tri-hulled Independence class of which the Giffords is a part, and the single-hull Freedom class.
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House lawmakers are proposing giving the Navy three more ships than it asked for in fiscal 2019 — one aircraft carrier and two littoral combat ships.
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RELATED: Navy overhauls troubled littoral combat ship program The USS Anzio, a guided-missile cruiser, was also being pulled out to sea when the incident occurred.
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And its location, between India and South-East Asia, with a long littoral on the Indian Ocean, puts it in the thick of things, geopolitically speaking.
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The other part is building closer defence co-operation with its non-NATO neighbour, Finland, as well as with America and Baltic littoral states in NATO.
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Fourth, the senator proposes stopping production of the poorly conceived and managed Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) at 28, as opposed to the Navy's goal of 52.
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The Royal Navy began refitting its frigates with these weapons a little over a decade ago as part of the littoral Defensive Anti-Surface Warfare upgrade.
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It would also authorize two more Virginia-class submarines and littoral combat ships, 6900 F-2628 Joint Strike Fighters and the upgrade of thousands of vehicles.
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It would also authorize two more Virginia-class submarines and littoral combat ships, 77 F-2023 Joint Strike Fighters and the upgrade of thousands of vehicles.
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Eastern European and Baltic Sea littoral states fear the project strengthens Russia's hand, while Germany and other beneficiaries in northern Europe see a commercial pay-off.
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Citing Senate Appropriations Committee staff, the Washington Examiner reported that the compromise bill would fund three Navy littoral combat ships and 93 F-35 fighter jets.
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For the Littoral Combat Ship, Lockheed, an LCS co-prime, partners with shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine and ship designer Gibbs & Cox for its Freedom-class variant.
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The deal is expected to include top-tier equipment and services including missiles, bombs, armored personnel carriers, Littoral Combat Ships, THAAD missile defense systems and munitions.
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Governors of coastal states have already pointed out that an offshore spill could devastate tourism — another trillion-dollar industry — not to mention wreck fragile littoral environments.
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He emphasized that the Pentagon was still "buying more" of the littoral combat ship because it conducts important missions such as minesweeping and anti-submarine warfare.
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The missile was recently deployed to the Pacific on the littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords, and the weapon is capable of flying more than 100 miles.
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"Three NATO members - Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey - are littoral states with their own national capabilities deployed in the Black Sea region," NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said.
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For almost three decades, the five littoral states - Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan - have argued over how to divide the world's biggest enclosed body of water.
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Since the 1990s China has been occupying reefs and rocks in the South China Sea claimed by the Philippines and other littoral countries, and building on them.
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Rangel oversees an in-house government affairs team that lobbies on a range of programs from the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to the littoral combat ships.
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In a marsh in Brooklyn, a member of the American Littoral Society tells a tale of settling 28 nesting pairs of osprey where once there were none.
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Navy ships: House lawmakers are proposing giving the Navy three more ships than it asked for in fiscal 2019 -- one aircraft carrier and two littoral combat ships.
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Two US Navy Independence-class littoral combat ships — the USS Gabrielle Giffords and USS Montgomery — have been operating in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.
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Congress has a history of bolstering the controversial Littoral Ship program, which the Pentagon sought to curtail to just one contractor under former Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
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As the virus spread aboard the Boxer, the Navy revealed that a sailor aboard the Littoral Combat Ship USS Coronado, also in San Diego, had tested positive.
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US Navy leaders have said multiple times this year they plan to have two of the littoral combat ships operating out of Singapore in this calendar year.
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Under British rule a ten-mile littoral strip was nominally part of a protectorate administered by the Sultan of Zanzibar, rather than part of the colony of Kenya.
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The House bill provides $146 billion for equipment and upgrades, including $22.7 billion for 12 Navy ships, two Virginia-class submarines and three fast-moving littoral combat ships.
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A closer-in or littoral undersea advantage, Navy strategy documents explain, can increase "ashore attack" mission potential along with ISR-empowered anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare operations.
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Last week, the littoral combat ship USS Coronado, which is temporarily based in Singapore, was conducting training operations in the South China Sea, according to a Navy statement.
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As secessionist movements flourish in Europe, and climate change threatens to obliterate littoral states, the issue of what it means to be a nation is acquiring new salience.
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Dive deeper into this eclectic port at the Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral (admission, 20 kuna), in the neo-Renaissance Governor's Palace, built in 226.
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And from October a Romanian will serve as NATO's deputy secretary-general—the first official from a Black Sea littoral state to do so in nearly five decades.
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Known as the "littoral battlespace sensing glider" (designated the "LBS-G" because of the military's acronym-mad culture), the US already fields more than 50 of the drones.
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Lockheed's contract covers construction of LCS 25, another of its Freedom-variant littoral combat ships, integration and testing of selected ship systems, and equipment, according to the statement.
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And closer by, dense green fields of sugarcane topped with fluffy white tufts of seed fill the narrow tropical littoral to the north and south of the city.
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The plan kicks off next year with the conversion of the first four littoral combat ships, Freedom, Fort Worth, Coronado and USS Independence (LCS 2) -- into testing ships.
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Russia's unceasing probes and threats should mandate both NATO and the EU to join forces to strengthen the forces of democracy throughout the Balkans and Black Sea littoral.
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The Navy's plan to replace the minesweepers with a new class of vessels, known as Littoral Combat Ships, has been repeatedly delayed by cost overruns and technical deficiencies.
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"Not too many people in there," said Don Riepe, a retired park ranger who now leads the cleanup crew as director at the American Littoral Society's Northeast chapter.
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In 2002, defense contractor Lockheed Martin partnered with FastShip in the development of a new, high-speed warship called the Littoral Combat Ship, Giles told me via phone.
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General Dynamics last year won a contract to perform maintenance of the Navy's two different types of Littoral Combat Ships, including the steel monohull version built by Lockheed.
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The bill also allocates funding for two additional Virginia-class submarines and littoral combat ships, 77 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and the upgrade of thousands of vehicles.
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The Navy has sought to keep up a consistent presence in the South China Sea, something that will be made easier once more littoral combat ships are regularly deploying.
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This deployment of the littoral combat ships suggested that the US strategy had switched from reconnaissance and deterrence to increasing its attack capability, a Beijing-based think tank said.
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My Google search tells me that by the time sunlight reaches the bottom of the littoral zone it is usually one per cent or less of its surface strength.
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And make no mistake, what China is doing in its littoral periphery is closely watched in India, where the rise of Chinese economic and military power is increasingly worrying.
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The littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords traveled within 12 nautical miles of Mischief Reef on Wednesday, Commander Reann Mommsen, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet, told Reuters.
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The first three coronavirus infections aboard San Diego-based US Navy warships emerged among sailors assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer and Littoral Combat Ship USS Coronado.
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Two other sailors, one assigned to the guided-missile destroyer Ralph Johnson and another with the littoral combat ship Coronado, also tested positive for the new coronavirus this week.
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The Navy has reported four cases of the coronavirus — two on the Boxer, and one each on the destroyer USS Ralph Johnson and the littoral combat ship USS Coronado.
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The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday shot down a provision to cut one littoral combat ship (LCS) from the three proposed in its annual defense policy bill. Rep.
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Berger also said he thought there was a role for the littoral combat ship, four of which the Navy plans to decommission in 2021, and the Navy's future frigate.
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The maritime hubbub is an attempt to push back against China's claim to the entire South China Sea, which other littoral states dispute and which a UN tribunal has rubbished.
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Most notably, the report calls for canceling the $235 billion Ford-class aircraft carrier program, halting construction of the littoral combat ship, and purchasing fewer F-22017 Joint Strike Fighters.
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He proclaimed himself first King of the Hijaz, the western littoral of the Arabian peninsula, and then, as his irregular forces advanced into the Fertile Crescent: King of the Arabs.
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China's building over the past three years of artificial islands on some much-disputed rocks and reefs has perturbed the littoral states and exposed the hollowness of America's naval predominance.
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I was knocked out, especially by a creation called Tidal Pool, which involved a clear littoral broth of seaweed dashi pooling around sea-urchin tongues, pickled kelp and foie gras.
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The shortfall in both American and British warships is especially worrying with regard to the eastern Baltic Sea, where Russian forces loom large, and whose littoral includes five NATO allies.
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That's about the same amount as the cost overrun on ONE of the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ships (that can't actually combat anything, and is costing twice its advertised price).
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That's the cost to U.S. taxpayers and the Navy after the four-year-old littoral combat ship USS Forth Worth tried to operate its propulsion system without enough oil in January.
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Named in honor of the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head and badly wounded in 2011, the vessel is the ninth littoral combat ship to join the fleet.
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The Zumwalt is a multimission surface ship that, like the USS Gerald R. Ford and the Littoral Combat Ship, has long been a bit of a problem child for the Navy.
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The bill would also provide the Navy five ships more than requested by the administration: one destroyer, two Littoral Combat Ships, one amphibious dock landing ship and one Expeditionary Support Base.
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The US Navy littoral combat ship USS Detroit conducted a freedom-of-navigation operation off of Venezuela&aposs Caribbean coast, the US&aposs top military command in the region said Thursday.
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US Navy littoral combat ship USS Coronado joined a Philippine Navy frigate, BRP Alcaraz, in patrolling the Sulu Sea where numerous pirate attacks on commercial shipping have been made since 2015.
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The club's name used to be AS Foresta when Yazid was still here, with kids playing just across the projects on a pitch that has been replaced by the 'Grand Littoral' mall.
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It would also authorize $28503 billion, or $22019 billion more than requested, to fund 10 new ships, including three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, two Virginia-class submarines and one littoral combat ship.
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In 2016, the Navy set off three 10,000-pound charges near its new littoral combat ship, the USS Jackson, to test its ability to withstand the effects of a nearby underwater explosion.
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It would also authorize $2628 billion, or $28500 billion more than requested, to fund 6900 new ships, including three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, two Virginia-class submarines and one littoral combat ship.
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The littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords fired the Naval Strike Missile during an exercise near Guam on Tuesday — the first time the missile had been fired in the Indo-Pacific region.
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The littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords launched a Naval Strike Missile on Tuesday, marking the first time the NSM has been fired in the Indo-Pacific region, the Navy told Insider.
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The Littoral Combat Ship has seen no shortage of critics, including Senate Armed Services Committee chair John McCain, who has repeatedly slammed it as an example of defense-related waste and inefficiency.
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Adding a second littoral combat ship includes a price tag of more than $500 million, and the Pentagon says the Navy will offset that funding elsewhere, which has not been determined yet.
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Although the Navy did not list the P-8 as an unfunded priority, that aircraft is of special importance to NATO allies and partners, especially the North and Baltic Sea littoral states.
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"One cannot say if, on the long term, his policies will result in job creations," said Iratxe Calvo-Mendieta, an economics professor at the University of the Littoral Opal Coast in Dunkirk.
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Singapore has been a close and longtime US ally -- it evens leases space for a US Navy logistics and support facility and has hosted forward deployments of US Navy littoral combat ships.
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Improved undersea navigation and detection technology, using new sonar, increased computer automation and artificial intelligence, enable quieter, faster movements in littoral waters where enemy mines, small boats and other threatening assets often operate.
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Iran is not just more aggressive at sea; the Iranian Navy is indeed sailing farther afield in recent years, signaling the intention to expand its ability to operate both littoral and blue water.
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But in December the Navy rejected the idea of bringing back older ships, preferring instead to invest in new ships like the controversial Littoral Combat Ship, which costs around $500 million a pop.
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The ships were expected to be tasked with carrying out naval surface fire support missions in littoral waterways, using 155 mm Advanced Gun Systems (AGSs) specifically designed for the task by BAE Systems.
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The Pentagon has said it plans to buy just 40 littoral combat ships instead of the 52 originally planned, saying the savings would allow the Navy to buy more missiles and undersea technology.
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China and Malaysia agreed to enhance naval cooperation, after sealing the deal to buy four Littoral Mission ships, fast patrol vessels that can be equipped with a helicopter flight deck and carry missiles.
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It would be no mean feat, and the Navy's long delays fielding littoral combat ship mission modules and new technologies from the Ford-class aircraft carriers have hardly inspired confidence on Capitol Hill.
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Russia's increased military presence in the region potentially threatens the functioning of the trade corridor between Asia and Europe, which has significance not only for the littoral states, but for greater global trade.
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It has not been shy about trying to curry favour with littoral and island states through its Belt and Road Initiative, a massive project to invest in infrastructure along ancient and modern trading routes.
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Images and video of the boat's damage have been posted to Twitter: This is the photo of the lava tour boat that was hit from a littoral explosion near the ocean entry this morning.
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The ships include an Arleigh Burke class destroyer made by General Dynamics Corp and Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc and a total of three Littoral Combat Ships built by Lockheed Martin and Australia's Austal Ltd.
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This is the first time an NSM has been deployed to the 7th Fleet area of responsibility, and the Gabrielle Giffords is the first littoral combat ship to deploy with an NSM on board.
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Lawmakers from those two states have warned that cutting the LCS production would lead to devastating job losses for the shipyards, and Congress added a third littoral combat ship to the Navy's 2017 budget.
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The ships include an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer made by General Dynamics Corp and Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc and a total of three Littoral Combat Ships built by Lockheed Martin and Australia's Austal Ltd.
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The USS Gabrielle Giffords, a sleek, speedy, low-profile littoral combat ship, left San Diego earlier this month carrying the US Navy's new Naval Strike Missile and a drone helicopter that helps aim it.
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He was a leading theorist of the idea that coasts comprise "littoral cells" — that every stretch of coast had a source of sand, something to move it and a sink where this sediment ends up.
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On Monday the Navy revealed that another of its littoral combat ships, the USS Freedom, suffered engine damage in July when seawater got inside the oil lubrication system, resulting in rust in the diesel engine.
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But littoral combat ships have unique advantages in the region, according to a report by the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, a think tank affiliated with Peking University&aposs Institute of Ocean Research.
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The Crawling Remotely-operated Amphibious Breacher, or CRAB, is a submersible, remote-controlled expendable breaching platform that can be deployed from a littoral utility craft, and it is expected to address a key capability gap.
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Lisa Scheppke, an employee of the Littoral Society, successfully snagged a bag, and Cheryl Sussman, a retired accountant who cleans up trash on the Far Rockaway beaches by herself as a hobby, got one, too.
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The mishap occurred Tuesday as the USS Montgomery, an Independence-class littoral combat ship, was being towed out to sea to ride out the hurricane after being ordered out of Mayport Naval Station near Jacksonville, Florida.
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Surface ships such as the Littoral Combat Ship, rely upon a host of interwoven technologies intended to share key data in real time - such as threat and targeting information, radar signal processing and fire control systems.
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" University of Wisconsin historian Alfred McCoy declared to The Intercept that Trump has been demolishing "pillars of U.S. global power.... He's weakened the NATO alliance; he's weakened our alliances with Asian allies along the Pacific littoral.
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The bill would authorize the purchase of 77 F-85033s and follow the seapower subcommittee's recommendation for one more aircraft carrier and two more littoral combat ships than requested by the administration, among other equipment purchases.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said the Pentagon's plan to truncate the Littoral Combat Ship program at 40 ships instead of 52 reflected budget pressures and was "not an indictment" of the program.
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Or it might be that Russell has made the work a window into a littoral zone where seaweed swims up and effloresces into mushrooming shrubs and the horizon disappears within a domain where all is motion.
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As USA Today reports, the Lava Ocean Tours boat was hit by falling lava caused by a littoral explosion near the Kapoho volcanic ocean entry, where molten rock from the Kilauea volcano is pouring into the sea.
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In addition to cutting the number of ships requested in FY 2020 by four, to include a reduced request for Virginia-class submarines, the Navy is also retiring four Littoral Combat Ships and one dock landing ship.
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Lieutenant Commander Matt Knight, U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman, said problems involving watchstanding procedures were rare since crews were well-trained and familiar with the ship, one of two models of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class.
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Today, it hosts a US air and naval presence, including the Littoral Combat ship USS Coronado, and more than 20163,000 active duty and civilian personnel, who provide repairs and resupply to members of the US's 7th Fleet.
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The draft bill includes a $6 billion boost to shipbuilding funding, including authorizing an extra $1 billion for the Littoral Combat Ship program, $1.9 billion for the DDG-51 destroyer and $1.8 billion for the LPD-17.
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Song added that the littoral combat ships programme did not seem to be hugely popular with the US Navy, but the maker of those vessels would probably like to sell them to US allies in the region.
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The decision to add a second littoral combat ship to the Trump administration budget after the fact caught even Navy leaders by surprise, with Navy officials delivering contradictory testimony Wednesday while defending their budget on Capitol Hill.
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The extra littoral ship was tacked onto the budget after a lengthy back-and-forth between the Navy, the Pentagon and OMB over the program, which was among the last items decided in the Pentagon budget request.
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The Pentagon also proposed major cuts to the size of the fleet overall through early decommissioning of a handful of littoral combat ships and dock landing ships and by defunding the construction of a number of destroyers.
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Since the U.S. Navy ordered its first Littoral Combat Ship back in 22016 -- USSFreedom (LCS 2655), the lead ship of the Lockheed variant's class -- Lockheed, General Dynamics, and Austal have built and launched a combined 13 LCSes.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said the Pentagon's plan to truncate the Littoral Combat Ship program at 40 ships instead of 52 reflected budget pressures and was "not an indictment" of the program.
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Not only has Mr Duterte completely undermined America's efforts to preserve a united front by other littoral states against China's territorial ambitions in the South China Sea, he has also saved Xi Jinping, China's leader, from a dilemma.
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An endless series of news stories and government reports details bloated spending and bureaucratic dysfunction that leads to lengthy delays and rampant cost overruns for major defense projects like the new F-35 fighter and Littoral Combat Ship.
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Although America is formally neutral on the territorial disputes between the littoral states, it says it has a national interest in maintaining freedom of navigation in the sea, through which one-third of the world's maritime trade passes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Austal USA, a Mobile, Alabama-based subsidiary of Australia's Austal Ltd, is being awarded a $584.2 million modification to a previously awarded contract for the construction of a littoral combat ship, the Pentagon said on Friday.
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The two extra ships in the House bill are littoral combat ships, which Congress continues to support buying despite the Navy's plan to transition away from them so that shipyards keep working and keep pace with future orders.
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It authorizes funding for a wide variety of additional military hardware including 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters across the service branches -- 20 more than requested by President Donald Trump's initial budget -- and three additional Littoral Combat Ships.
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At the same time, China seeks to gain control over the strategically vital South-East China Sea through territorial claims, and to secure friendly ports in the Indian Ocean by developing relations with some of its littoral states.
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The two extra ships are littoral combat ships, which Congress continues to support buying — despite the Navy's plan to transition away from the ship — so that shipyards keep working and will be able to keep pace on future orders.
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The two extra ships are littoral combat ships, which Congress continues to support buying, despite the Navy's plan to transition away from the ship, so that shipyards keep working and will be able to keep pace with future orders.
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The two extra ships are littoral combat ships, which Congress continues to support buying -- despite the Navy's plan to transition away from the ship -- so that shipyards keep working and will be able to keep pace on future orders.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has sent Lockheed Martin Corp three requests to correct problems, including propulsion-related issues, with the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program dating back to May of last year, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The NDAA also authorizes the Pentagon to buy 2202 F-2628s, 28500 more than requested by the administration; 6900 F/A-2628s, 28503 more than requested; and three littoral combat ships, two more than requested, among other equipment purchases.
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Quand une courte interview accordée à BFM TV donna des indices sur son lieu de refuge, je pris la direction du littoral italien, où je l'ai trouvé – l'homme a ses habitudes, ses journaux le montrent – dans son café préféré.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday defended the Pentagon's decision to buy just 40 Littoral Combat Ships instead of the 52 originally planned, saying the money saved would allow the Navy to buy more missiles and undersea technology.
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Here are five major things we know now and how it could potentially impact different defense-related companies: "Clearly shipbuilding is one sector that will benefit," said Cowen's Schweizer, a former acquisition professional with the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program.
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Two PLA groups, Units 61938 and 61486, have reportedly stolen information from over two dozen Defense Department weapons programs, including the Patriot missile system, the US Navy's new littoral combat ship, and the F-35 and F-22 stealth fighter jets.
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The Navy initially approved two different designs for so-called Littoral Combat Ships, or LCS - one a monohull developed by Lockheed Martin, and the other a trimaran hull developed by General Dynamics and built at an Austal USA shipyard in Alabama.
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High-purity, American-made aluminum is used in defense platforms including F-2628, F-28500 and F-6900 fighter jets and other military aircraft, littoral combat ships, armor for the light tactical vehicle program, tank hulls, missile structures and more.
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"Specifically, the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee will recommend one additional destroyer, two Littoral Combat Ships, one amphibious dock landing ship and one Expeditionary Support Base," Wittman said during his opening statement at the subcommittee's mark of the defense policy bill.
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However, emphasizing threats in the Baltic without mentioning the Black Sea sends exactly the wrong impression, namely that the Balkans and Black Sea littoral are of lesser importance to NATO and thus their defense against Russian threats is less urgent.
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Kamarulzaman said they are also in the final stages of negotiations with French shipbuilder DCNS to launch a program to build the larger littoral combat ships (LCS), which he said should be formally announced in August or September this year.
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According to the sources, the littoral combat ship about-face was spearheaded in the White House by Rick Dearborn, a White House deputy chief of staff who is the former chief of staff to Alabama senator-turned Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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The US Navy is moving ahead with plans to bolster the firepower of its littoral combat ships, adding new capabilities to the vessels that will improve their lethality and survivability in a conflict, a Lockheed Martin executive said Jan. 218.
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The Navy's newest Independence-class littoral combat ship will join the nation's fleet Saturday with a commissioning ceremony in San Diego, and the future USS Omaha has close ties to the family of Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett.
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It also doesn't authorize funding for an additional 14 F/A-18 Super Hornets and 11 F-35 fighters, dozens of new Apache, Lakota and Black Hawk Army helicopters and several new Navy ships, including a third Littoral Combat Ship.
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An ill-fated "European Neighbourhood Policy" failed to draw the littoral states to the east and the south closer to the EU. In 2008 Nicolas Sarkozy, then France's president, launched a 20173-country "Union for the Mediterranean" to much fanfare but zero effect.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp and Australia's Austal have each won contracts worth up to $564 million to build one Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Defense Department said on Thursday in its daily digest of arms deals.
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"The Navy still plans to rotationally deploy four littoral combat ships to Singapore by 2018 as part of a broader effort to base the most advanced and capable naval forces in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region over the next four years," he said.
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The US Navy littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords deployed Tuesday from San Diego, California, packing the service's new Naval Strike Missile, transforming the LCS from an under-gunned concept ship gone awry to a legitimate threat to Chinese warships at significant ranges.
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The Crawling Remotely-operated Amphibious Breacher (CRAB), a heavy submersible, remote-controlled expendable breaching platform equipped with a mine flail, tiller, and rake, will deploy from a littoral utility craft and eliminate threats to a landing force to clear an assault lane.
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Several lawmakers have pressed for an additional littoral combat ships (LCS) in the budget — the Navy's 2018 request only includes one — and the acting Navy acquisition chief, Allison Stiller, said last month that the White House is "supportive" of buying two ships.
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On the shores of Lake Chad, violent clashes between government forces and armed opposition groups have created zones that are off-limits to civilians, says Chitra Nagarajan, a researcher for the Adelphi report, who spent two years conducting surveys in all four littoral countries.
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WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp and Australia's Austal have each won contracts worth up to $564 million to build one Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Defense Department said on Thursday in its daily digest of arms deals.
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And the US has been positioning some of its newest and most sophisticated weapons at those bases -- F-215 stealth fighters, Advanced Hawkeye radar aircraft and Aegis warships in Japan, a littoral combat ship with helicopter drones in Singapore, F-235 stealth fighters in Australia.
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The intervening three decades have seen growth in Gulf transport infrastructure so, absent shooting in self-defense, any American military operations against Iran will be coordinated with the Gulf littoral states because of the ship and air traffic that would have to be diverted.
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Captain James E. Baskerville of Richmond, Va. The bride's father retired as the vice president in charge of design and engineering of the United State's Navy's littoral combat ship construction at Bath Iron Works, a division, in Bath, Me., of the General Dynamics Company.
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Here, I can recharge my batteries with hikes along the magnificent foot path that follows the protected Deux Caps littoral and lazy afternoons on my balcony, reading or just staring out at the topaz waters of the English Channel and daydreaming while I anticipate my next meal.
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Designed to give lightly armed warships some significant teeth when operating in the Pacific, the missile deployed on the littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords last year, along with Northrop Grumman's MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter drone which will be used for over-the-horizon targeting.
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He's expected to formally announce a massive $300 billion arms sale to the Saudis that includes a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system, littoral combat ships designed to fight in shallow water close to shore, and precision guided munitions designed to limit civilian casualties.
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The NDAA that has now been passed by both houses of Congress authorizes funding for a wide variety of additional military hardware, including 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters across the service branches -- 20 more than requested by President Donald Trump's initial budget -- and three additional Littoral Combat Ships.
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The bill introduced Thursday would provide $22019 billion for military personnel costs, including a 2.1 percent pay raise for troops; $215.3 billion for operations and maintenance; and $117.8 billion to buy equipments such as three littoral combat ships, 74 F-35 aircraft and 14 F-85033s Super Hornet aircraft.
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Based on a proposal issued by the UN's refugee and migration agencies, the idea is to share responsibility among countries, including those on the North African littoral, for migrants saved at sea, accommodate them to reasonable standards, process their asylum claims and return home those who do not need protection.
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"Under the situation created in the wake of the presidency of Donald Trump, Persian Gulf littoral states are somehow concerned about the future and the European countries are interested in cementing their presence in the region and giving some form of reassurance to their allies," Dehghan is quoted as saying.
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So, while screaming from the rooftops about the need for more readiness funding, Congress has instead decided to buy more M-1 tanks, more F-35 combat aircraft, more Apache helicopters, more KC-46 aerial refueling tankers, more Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), an extra aircraft carrier, and much, much more.
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This latest annual shipbuilding plan shows the impact of Defense Secretary Ash Carter's decision in December to order the Navy to cut its total planned purchases of Littoral Combat Ships from 52 to 40, saying the Navy was too focused on ship quantity and should instead invest more in ship lethality.
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"The air wing of the future is going to have to be focused less on attacking terrorist training camps and huts in Syria, and more focused on killing ships and submarines at sea — dealing with naval capabilities and island-based littoral capabilities," Clark said in a telephone interview earlier this year.
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Drones have become critical to the military's effort to combat terrorist activity globally and, in theory, this new technology would allow surveillance flights and drone strikes to be launched globally from the hundreds of existing "small-deck naval maritime vessels," which include guided-missile destroyers and littoral combat ships, according to Northrop Grumman.
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With the naming of the littoral combat ship, the Arizona Democrat became the first living woman to have a Navy warship bear her name since the Lady Washington was named after Martha Washington in 1776; and Giffords is only the third living woman in US history to see her name on a naval vessel.
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Getting a more deadly LCS up and running is critical for the surface Navy, which has been rocked by a string of engineering mishaps with the new littoral combat ships — some caused by crew errors — and by the 2017 accidents that claimed the lives of 17 sailors in the Pacific in two separate collisions.
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Switching between a "blue crew" and a "gold crew" extends the amount of time the ship can operate — allowing frigates to take on missions that larger combatants, like destroyers, have been saddled with — without increasing the burden on the crew and their families; it's already in use on ballistic-missile submarines and littoral combat ships.
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