Questions surround number of LCS to be built
When US Navy leaders headed to Capitol Hill to defend their Fiscal Year 2019 budget request, they laid out plans to increase their ship fleet and batted down questions about increasing the number of Littoral Combat Ships currently (LCS) to maintain shipbuilding production lines.
With just one LCS budgeted by the navy in FY19, Rep Martha Roby (R-AL) questioned if one ship is enough to sustain the production line. Roby’s district, second district Alabama, has many defence facilities within it and ten LCS suppliers reside in Alabama.
In response, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said, ‘Between FY18 and FY19 having 4 LCS will provide them with… a good
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