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SAS 2015: Integration focus for US frigate development

15th April 2015 - 15:05 GMT | by Tim Fish in National Harbor

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The US Navy will focus on integrating new weapon and survivability systems on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to turn it into the new future frigate.

Speaking at Sea-Air-Space 2015, RAdm Brian Antonio from PEO LCS, said that PMS 515 had been created in January within his procurement division at Naval Sea Systems Command to look at the integration effort required.

The new frigate programme was originally envisaged as a modified LCS because it will be based on the two existing LCS platforms: Freedom and Independence.

Antonio said that since its creation in late January 2015 the new PMS

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