A Fast & Lethal Vessel Named Littoral Combat
Ship (LCS)
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Launch of the USS Little
Rock (LCS-9)
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“LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission platform
designed for operation in near-shore (littoral) environments yet capable of
open-ocean operation. It is designed to defeat asymmetric ‘anti access’ threats
such as mines, quiet diesel submarines, and fast surface craft”.
So says a U.S. Navy fact file on LCS.
Just
recently, LCS made news when USS Fort
Worth (LCS-3) sailed in
the South China Sea where the Chinese are building facilities on the Spratly
Islands, a group of islands claimed by
China, Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Brunei. Apparently, U.S. and
Chinese interests are not completely aligned in Asia-Pacific.
