Austal USA hosted the christening of the U.S.’s 22nd littoral combat ship (LCS), the future Kansas City, at its state-of-the-art ship manufacturing facility last Saturday. Kansas City is the 11th of 17 Independence-variant LCSes Austal USA has under contract with the U.S. Navy.
The Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship is a 421’6″x103.7′ high-speed, agile, shallow draft, focused-mission surface combatant designed to conduct Surface Warfare, Anti-Submarine Warfare, and Mine Countermeasures...
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