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Questions raised about Navy plan to decommission four Littoral Combat Ships
The push comes as the Navy has stated it intends to increase its fleet to 355 ships from its current level of 297 ships. Author: Mike Gooding Updated: 7:21 PM EDT April 15, 2021
WASHINGTON Lawmakers are questioning the Navy and its push to decommission warships years before the end of their life expectancy.
At issue: the Navy s announcement last summer that it intends to retire the Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1) and three other LCS s as a way to save money.
The Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday has said, Those ships are not bringing lethality to the fight.
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Lawmakers Quiz SOUTHCOM’s Faller on Littoral Combat Ship Program
April 14, 2021 7:24 PM
The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11), transits the Caribbean Sea, April 10, 2021. Sioux City is deployed to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission, which includes counter-illicit drug trafficking missions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. US Navy Photo
Two lawmakers raised questions on the future of the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship during a Wednesday hearing, as the service continues to wrestle with a crucial design flaw, how it will use the ships operationally and retirements of early hulls in the class.